HiddenLayer555 comments on Getting rejected

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

IDK how common this is, but there are stories of companies that make you work on real production code in the interview. Basically suckering you into free work before they give the position to the boss's cousin or something.

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[–] thehairguy@lemmy.zip 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I had a startup give me a take home to implement a graphql api on top of some sample data they gave me. Recruiter said they were in the middle of a migration and I made some assumptions

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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

that's when you randomly mix up the sample data but still turn in the results

y'know, if you want to

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml [S] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I've heard about this kind of shit, but never seen it myself.

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[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

UK company Brewdog were up to that shit allegedly. Probably easy enough to Google.

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[–] bmaxv@noc.social 3 points 8 months ago

@HiddenLayer555 @yogthos Someone asked me to do a minimal but fully working prototype of... a docker hosted store front? It was apparently not very good, but the startup was kind enough to tell me why and I learned a lot. It did work, but I shoved entire python objects into sqlite and that just worked.Ultimately I don't know if it was what they wanted, they fixed three things and used it or if it was truly not good enough.

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