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Re:Ask HN: Review our startup for testing developer skills by alandarev on Thursday June 12, 2014 @09:30AM (#7883224)
I commend you for improving the screening process of hiring people. I really hate answering questions to recruiters like "What is the name of technology used in Java to load classes?".

What frusted me in the given tests, is unrealistic situation. I need to fix a bug through making tests pass, but not seeing the output program does, nor the expected output.

As a result I find it a test for previous experience, rather than a test for actual productivity and competence on real tasks.

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Re:Ask HN: Review our startup for testing developer skills by mariozivic on Monday June 16, 2014 @06:52AM (#7898277)
That's exactly the point I'm working on right now. We realised that just the information that "something" is not working well is not good enough. Hopefully in a week or two, feedback from the execution of the test cases will be much more descriptive than it is now.
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