Early-career setback and future career impact

Re:Early-career setback and future career impact by jschwartzi on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:23PM (#21130842)

> Anecdote: My company has recently passed on a few early career candidates who pretty clearly hadn't been mentored.

Either that or the candidates you passed on simply didn't want to spend several hours making enterprise-grade software for a take-home test that they're not getting paid for.

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Re:Early-career setback and future career impact by noobiemcfoob on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:28PM (#21130896)

This. This. This.

Everyone thinks they can interpret their tests perfectly. Ultimately, the candidates are likely better off. The coded message here is not that they didn't use obvious design patterns but that they didn't code in the way the employer wanted. Which...I suppose is a perfectly fine reason to pass on a candidate.

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Re:Early-career setback and future career impact by sgt101 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @03:24AM (#21134086)

Also, I would love to see the quantitative evidence that the value of the design patterns in maintenence are. My guess is that in fact this is a random assertion made by a single engineer.

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Re:Early-career setback and future career impact by jar_cup_bowl on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @05:30PM (#21130921)

I'm just sharing my experience as it relates to the article, no need to be inflammatory. Take home assignments are a pretty common assessment tool and many candidates prefer it to getting grilled on DS/Algos on a whiteboard.

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