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I turned my interview task for Google into a startup

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Re: I turned my interview task for Google into a startup

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Post by fendy3002 »

jordansmithnz wrote: post #39

This reminds me of a take home software engineering interview I was once given via email. Same deal, I was told about 5 hours. I’m an iOS developer, so I was expecting a pretty simple app. I opened the PDF to find not one, but three separate tasks. Completion of all three was expected, with an estimate of about two hours each. One of the tasks was to replicate Apple’s ‘Reminders’ app in its entirety, backend sync fun…

Ha, next time companies should do it, then continue with those who declined

Re: I turned my interview task for Google into a startup

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Post by dnaismith »

sethammons wrote: post #56

The rule of thumb I subscribed to: have the interviewer(s) do the interview. Give the candidate 3x time to do it that the in-house people took. Or, framed in reverse, if you want the assignment to take and n minutes or hours, give yourself n/3 to complete it, and however far you get is the bar for the assignment. Interviewees are stressed, maybe outside their domain, and other things. Make something that they can sho…

We did this at my company. A developer at the level that that developer was applying for would do a task that took them 2-4 hours. We then gave the interviewee four days to complete the task with a recommended time of 2 days. We also always made sure to include the weekend in the time they had to complete the task as we know during the week time is precious.

Re: I turned my interview task for Google into a startup

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

davidbanham wrote: post #18

> You have ‘4–6 hours’... No one acknowledges the fact that in reality, you’re about to dedicate up to 5 working days on this task I fixed that problem for my candidates then turned it into a startup: https://takehome.io

Meta: I assume you're doing a website update at the moment. I prefer the blue! Though I might still use a white version on the homepage to remove emphasis from the header. Also, on you signup page it would IMO look nicer if you pinned the page footer (eg https://matthewjamestaylor.com/bottom-footer).

Re: I turned my interview task for Google into a startup

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Post by maitredusoi »

This how interview task should be made : generate something joyful and useful ; instead we usually have boring throw away to do task. By the way I had the same @ https://www.captaincontrat.com/ the task was to create a pokemon game, and from that task, I am building my current startup ;) (more on that later)

Re: I turned my interview task for Google into a startup

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Post by leadingthenet »

wycy wrote: post #41
jordansmithnz wrote: post #39

This reminds me of a take home software engineering interview I was once given via email. Same deal, I was told about 5 hours. I’m an iOS developer, so I was expecting a pretty simple app. I opened the PDF to find not one, but three separate tasks. Completion of all three was expected, with an estimate of about two hours each. One of the tasks was to replicate Apple’s ‘Reminders’ app in its entirety, backend sync fun…

Apple's Reminders app is so glitchy that your interview task probably would've been vastly superior to the actual consumer product.

It's barebones, but glitchy?! I've been using it for years, and it's been rock stable for me.

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Post by siscia »

dannyw wrote: post #55
siscia wrote: post #33

I believe Google have brainwashed us all. Are we sure that it is worth all this effort? Are they so much better than any other company or startup? Is our own self so much more valuable if a random intervier liked our works an epsilon more than the other candidate? People inside FAANG are unhappy as well, they leave their company as well. I believe we should be less impacted by the ads that Google is running to sponso…

Their pay and RSUs are pretty good...

Nobody could say otherwise, but are THAT much better?

Moreover, after some level of income the marginal improvement of more money approaches zero...

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Post by H1Supreme »

ahoka wrote: post #48

Actual Google app: https://www.wareable.com/media/images/2017/03/google-fit-app... WTF Google?

OP's design is much nicer than this. Maybe the "3-5 hours" requirement was hinting that it needed to be as "material design generic" as possible. Which, this design clearly does.
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