Re:Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wonderi...
by endless1234 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @03:59AM
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This is maybe overly cynical, but maybe they want people who say (to themselves, if nothing else) they did 10 hours of work in a few hours? Easy to keep people feeling inadequate and working overtime for free.
Re:Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wonderi...
by pydry on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:24AM
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This kind of frustration is what got me into writing open source. I wanted an open body of work to point to that I could reuse from one employer to the next that proved I knew wtf I was doing.
It also let me weed out the weirdly numerous companies who threw 8 hour assignments over the wall but apparently lacked the time to spend 10 minutes looking at my open source projects.
I did a take home project for Netflix that didn't have a time box IIRC - but something like "no more than a few hours". The task was to code a few movie poster carousels w/o using a web framework. Basically to create your own mini-higher level framework paradigm from vanilla JS or a low-level framework like JQuery.
I spent 7 hours on it and was fairly proud of it. I got dinged for not creating a virtual DOM and instead using the actual DOM as a source of truth. I even put in my notes (which I don't think were read) that in the real world you'd probably use a virtual DOM for this, but that would be a whole project in itself. Apparently I was supposed to spend the whole weekend creating React from scratch.