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Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice
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#62I'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'.
I most definitely do not want to work at amazon :) This is a contract position till I find something that is right.
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#63Why would this be free?
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#64Why would this be free?
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#65I wonder where the interviewers will come from. That said, this is a great idea, and also along the lines of the "Show me a million new jobs" RFS [0].
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#66This 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...
If someone asks me to code/problem solve in an interview these days, I don't even bother to try, I just pretend to try and answer the question to see their reaction, because by that point I've already lost interest in the position. It's the equivalent of a shit-test, so I like to turn the tables around and see how they react instead.
I do this for many reasons, one of which, is they obviously weren't interested enough in my talents to throughly research me before the interview to assess my skill-set, which means, they weren't that interested in hiring me to begin with. I don't want to work for someone who is just slamming through interviews for talent; I'll bow out. I want to work for someone who is specifically interested in working with me and understands my skill-set before hand. The second reason, I don't deal with these questions is that I don't like to be put on the spot without my normal working environment, I feel at a disadvantage and uncomfortable. Keep in mind most developers are introverts.
I consider a good interview to be about people; not technicals, which can be referenced/refered or looked up; they should provide a medium to see if the employee is a comfortable fit. If goals and motives align. To talk history and such.
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#67I'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…
Dude, if you're that passionate about that job you just described then I'd suggest calling the company up and explaining what happened. Having interviewed many people I'd certainly be open to giving someone a second chance if they explained a situation like yours to me.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
Also, if you don't email me immediately, I probably won't ever think to check my spam folder later.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me, even worse than an in person interview is a remote coding interview over the phone. Usually some sort of screen sharing + phone call. I find it incredibly nerve wracking because it gives me that feeling of someone standing over my shoulder without me being able to fully interact with them or read their body language. When you sit down to hammer out a solution you have all the additional pressure of trying to…
Worse, you simply have no way of knowing what their evaluation criteria are. Maybe they want you to be slow and thorough (I've been nailed for not checking the exit status of print statements). OR maybe they want it quick and dirty, in which case you'll get nailed for "overengineering", or you just wont have time to do it the imaginary time frames they set for these tasks, if you go for any of the defensive practices…
1. Tell people what you want.
2. Actually evaluate them on that.
Anything else is a psychology test, and you aren't psychologists.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
In elementary school when you were learning to do algebra did you say, "that problem has been solved id google it?" To learn you have to do the basics before you can do the advanced stuff.