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Re:Ask HN: Review our startup for testing developer skills by MattBearman on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @10:59AM (#7878316)
Interesting in that I've not seen something like this before. Personally I hate dev tests, but a lot of employers seem to like them, so I can see there potentially being demand.

My first thought is that the tests are too easy, I'm a Ruby dev with only fairly decent JavaScript knowledge, yet I was able to complete your hard, 10 minute, javascript test in one attempt.

My other concern is you'll need a LOT of tests, that expire quickly, to stop people posting solutions online.

Best of luck :)

Re:Ask HN: Review our startup for testing developer skills by mariozivic on Thursday June 12, 2014 @03:51AM (#7882263)
One of the co-founders here. I must say, you are the first one to say that the tests are too easy. A significant number of our customers said just the opposite, that tests were on the hard side. That's not to say that you are wrong but since we're aiming for the mass market, I'll add your vote to the too-easy side and see what the stats will say at the end.

Thanks for the feedback.

Re:Ask HN: Review our startup for testing developer skills by MattBearman on Thursday June 12, 2014 @05:55AM (#7882573)
To be fair, I only did that one test, maybe it just happened to be something I already knew well :) I'll be interested to see how it goes when you have some Ruby (or even PHP) tests on there.