iandouglas
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Render will host Rails apps, but if you can share more about what your app is, what other tech you need (Redis, PostgreSQL, uptime, etc) you can get more specific help.
For me, I'd use a platform like interviewing.io where you'll GET actionable feedback -- most companies won't give you feedback at all, other then "here's your offer" or "nah, thanks anyway"
For me it's experience in the industry. If you can see my work history, that I have >25 years in the industry, working for mid and large size companies, and lots and lots of startups, why do I need to do something like a 2-pointer / heap / etc kind of problem to prove I can code?
One of my favorite job offers was literally a conversation that played out like:
Manager: Cool, come to our office and meet the team
Me: Want me to prep for a tech challenge or something?
Manager: Nah, you were employed by ____ for __ years -- if you were incompetent, they would have fired you years ago.
"You're a surgeon, you say? Go operate on that patient, and if they live, we'll CONSIDER you for the job..."
Missing is Aaron's base salary in this reply. 3% at different annual salaries can mean an awful lot to a lot of people.
As a manager, and also as someone who has done similar herculean efforts, it can be 'dangerous' to reward such efforts because it becomes the norm, you are expected to put in this kind of effort on a regular basis.
My take: if this guy was expected to spend three weeks completely rebuilding the architecture of a core system, then (a) his management layer sucks and he should have quit for that reason alone and I imagine that had more to do with the resulting layoffs later on, (b) retooling a system in three weeks of non-stop effort, even with minimal sleep is about 300-350 hours of work -- even spread out that's about 8-10 weeks of "regular" effort, which as a 20yr vet in the industry, doesn't sound like that complex of a system.
We've been taking suggestions on the GitHub Issues page. One of the biggest things folks are asking for is an OPML import.
I love using reveal.js, having a cross-platform, browser-based presentation system is really great. I would never thought about using Google Glass in concert though, brilliant idea!