HYIP-Man: Can you actually get a dev job without doing a stupid quiz?
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Can you actually get a dev job without doing a stupid quiz?
Can you actually get a dev job without doing a stupid quiz?
I hate all forms of on-line/in-situ developer exams and tests. It is basically non-sense code golf in 5 minutes on an universe of problems plus all the pressure of a job interview. Today when you have code repositories, container repositories, challenge sites (HackerRank, CodeChef, etc), linkedin, blogs, h-index ranks, ... My line of thought is: With all of this free avaliable on-line information if a recruiter still need to test if I can extract max value without a binary search tree, then he didn't do his job. What do he wants to test? If I hired a genius to build a fake developer profile for me? And then I present myself to the job interview anyway? For what? Look at this way: If I have 130 GitHub repositories (not forks), half of them fully passing tests through CI, my issues reports, my PR's, my own code metric reports including object-coupling, cyclomatic complexity, Halstead, Hansen metrics and all the stuff... should I really spent 3 months to practice how to add without + operator? And then get on-line interview just to discover they want me to write a k-partition problem solver? There are companies which do not rely on these stupid stressful tests?
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Written at 11:12 AM by Frank.
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