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marcgg

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About marcgg

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    I'm sorry to hear that. This is of course not normal, could you please let me know where you sent it? We look at all applicants' tests sent via our job page, and if yours got lost …

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    We saw some issues that seemed like a possible aws outage, but can't really confirm it

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    As I mentioned in the article, we don't expect the code presented to be "perfect" code. If you've managed to get a side project running very quickly thanks to tradeoffs you've made…

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    I completely agree, this was just an example of a common complain.

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    Yes it's true that it doesn't fit all use cases. However I would see looking at a few of the fixes you're talking about as an interesting technical interview.

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    From experience we saw that for most people doing the coding test was only taking ~an evening which seems reasonable as it removes the need for more on site discussions. I guess th…

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    Comment #14688128

    Sometimes we do discuss this code if the candidate prefers. But it's still a somewhat "fake" code made for the only purpose to apply at the company. Most people would find it more …

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    I never said our interview process was perfect, I mainly wanted to share it because I saw a lot of people complaining about whiteboard coding and so on... so I figured it could be …

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    Thanks! So far it's been also very interesting on our end to discuss "real life" problems

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    We accept any kind of code, be it a kata made during a workshop or a side project... really we just want to talk about code that the candidate wrote previously. It doesn't need to …

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    If you sum it all up, it is less than a day. The phone screening is ~20 minutes, the assignment takes a couple of hours and so on. I think it's fair to expect that a candidate is w…

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    I don't think that there much one can learn by looking at a couple of classes. On our end we let the candidate decide based on their previous company's policies.

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    Yes, some people prefer not to share this and it is totally fine by us. It's really up to the candidate to decide in accordance to the previous company's policies. Personally I wou…

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    Drivy - Paris, France | https://en.drivy.com/ | Full Time | Onsite We are building the leading peer to peer car rental platform and are hiring across the board. We believe shared c…

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