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Re: Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

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Post by leeny »

danielweber wrote: post #42
owenversteeg wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me a popup appeared with a Github auth window. It's possible that your browser blocked the popup.

I did email, not Github. I no more want to log in with Github than I want to log in with Facebook. EDIT It seems to crash in the background if you have a "+" in your email address.

thanks, will fix!

Re: Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

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Post by benhoyt »

elq wrote: post #47
general_failure wrote: post #25

This looks great. These days I skip all interviews which require me to code in the interview. I have plenty of open source code, if they cannot figure how good I am looking at, then they definitely cannot figure how good I am with a 3 hour coding interview. IMO, coding interviews is like public speaking. Many people get nervous in front of a crowd. It's a skill one has to obtain should it be required. Coding intervie…

>I have plenty of open source code, if they cannot figure how good I am looking at... I've interviewed several people with lots of code on github and what looks like lots of accepted pull requests to many projects who still can't seem to reason through a problem described as "write a function that takes two unsorted lists and returns one sorted list". I think I'll continue asking technical/coding questions...

This satisfies your problem description:

   def function(unsorted1, unsorted2):
       return [1, 2, 3]
;-)

Re: Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

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Post by elq »

benhoyt wrote: post #53
elq wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I have plenty of open source code, if they cannot figure how good I am looking at... I've interviewed several people with lots of code on github and what looks like lots of accepted pull requests to many projects who still can't seem to reason through a problem described as "write a function that takes two unsorted lists and returns one sorted list". I think I'll continue asking technical/coding questions...

This satisfies your problem description: def function(unsorted1, unsorted2): return [1, 2, 3] ;-)

indeed! Yet, in the interview I'm thinking of, he didn't even get this far.

poorly specified questions are very important to ask IMHO :)

Re: Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

#57

Post by pyfish »

benhoyt wrote: post #53
elq wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I have plenty of open source code, if they cannot figure how good I am looking at... I've interviewed several people with lots of code on github and what looks like lots of accepted pull requests to many projects who still can't seem to reason through a problem described as "write a function that takes two unsorted lists and returns one sorted list". I think I'll continue asking technical/coding questions...

This satisfies your problem description: def function(unsorted1, unsorted2): return [1, 2, 3] ;-)

That is awesome. I like; "That problem has been solved so I'd Google it". Your answer is faster.

Re: Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

#59

Post by Ethan_Mick »

elq wrote: post #56
benhoyt wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This satisfies your problem description: def function(unsorted1, unsorted2): return [1, 2, 3] ;-)

indeed! Yet, in the interview I'm thinking of, he didn't even get this far. poorly specified questions are very important to ask IMHO :)

I would say this is actually a very important part of interviewing. When given vague requirements, see how they respond. Building something that is technically correct isn't as good as building what you actually want.

Re: Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice

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Post by hueving »

cnp wrote: post #24

I'm absolutely one of these people who melt down. Give me a task and leave the room and I'm on it, but while being watched I loose all ability to think, which I think has a lot to do with the fact that I never went to college and jumped right into the industry directly after high school essentially bypassing a very important skill you learn there: test taking. Two weeks ago the position of my dreams -- literally, exa…

Not to be a downer, but Amazon isn't that great of a company to work for in the grand scheme of tech companies. Very few perks for engineers and penny pinching on workstations, monitors, etc. It really starts to wear on you after a while and you feel like nothing more than a 'necessary cost'.
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