Wow, it's not that cool to just be a hater and see yourself as a 'sick' engineer that doesn't have time for PM's bull... This is actually a pretty cool exercise, and for someone like me, coming out of school and practicing algorithm interview questions (which are questionable, but hey), this is helpful and fun.
Anyways, if all you want to do is say that you are cool because you're learning a functional language and are completely above java, do it in your head.
Whoosh!
No Racket, no ML
But Haskell, Clojure, Scala, Erlang, Common Lisp... Very far from "just Java"
They're actually using InterviewStreet to do the testing, which supports a variety of languages (including a number of functional ones).
No wait, the real heroes are the Purple Squirrel.
Re:Amazon Code Ninjas
by kylemaxwell on Monday November 11, 2013 @02:30PM
(#6713425)
I'll take "Shit HN Says" for $500, Alex...
What about Jedi?
Re:Amazon Code Ninjas
by AsymetricCom on Monday November 11, 2013 @01:18PM
(#6713008)
No, they want people who go in silently, fix something and leave the same way. Thus, Ninja.
There is no indication of what language is expected, but presumably it's java, because companies that do this shit, are entirely java.
I feel the urge to click on the button, but I've been doing Dan Grossman's Programming Language MOOC (https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang) lately, so I'm all about functional programming languages, which I suspect this particular programming test does not grok.. and the button looks like it's entirely about product managers and their conception of what programmers do. Which rhymes with "fuck you."