Now that I read this it made me think I should also share my thoughts about a coding interview I took for curiosity lately. About it, in a nutshell:
A company approached me, HR contacted me and told me all about how awesome the job is. I thought I'll give it a go even if I have a job, just to see what they think, how they interview. Then they sent me over to a coding challenge just as they did with you. I did the coding task, submitted my work, but a couple of days later their answer hit me with surprise. They didn't even look at my code.
They said an automated test resulted in failure when running it. I felt devastated. I mean, code is so much more than just giving it 'a', so it can return 'b'. How it's built tells a lot about the developer who wrote it. Not even taking the time to look at it feels insulting. It's like putting a f*kin robot on the front desk of your interview process.
I'm a web developer and father from The Netherlands. I mostly do Frontend Web development, but I'm also known to dabble in PHP, MySQL and AWS. I'm interested in learning Vue and NodeJS.
Jeez, that sounds terrible. What does that say about the company, really? They want you to put in the extra effort to apply for a job, but they don't want to put in the extra effort themselves. It sends a message that they don't really care.
Now that I read this it made me think I should also share my thoughts about a coding interview I took for curiosity lately. About it, in a nutshell:
A company approached me, HR contacted me and told me all about how awesome the job is. I thought I'll give it a go even if I have a job, just to see what they think, how they interview. Then they sent me over to a coding challenge just as they did with you. I did the coding task, submitted my work, but a couple of days later their answer hit me with surprise.
They didn't even look at my code.
They said an automated test resulted in failure when running it. I felt devastated. I mean, code is so much more than just giving it 'a', so it can return 'b'. How it's built tells a lot about the developer who wrote it. Not even taking the time to look at it feels insulting. It's like putting a f*kin robot on the front desk of your interview process.
Jeez, that sounds terrible. What does that say about the company, really? They want you to put in the extra effort to apply for a job, but they don't want to put in the extra effort themselves. It sends a message that they don't really care.
Ah and another thing. It was a 4 hours long challenge. :D
4 hours