Comment on The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades.

toasteecup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• falsem@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You'd be surprised by the number of applicants that can't write a for-loop. There's a middle ground between no test and complex tree search algorithms.

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  • toasteecup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I ever encounter that middle ground, I’ll let you know. Until now, it’s only ever been complex bullshit.

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    • bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • hairyballs@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Lmao, what the heck. I’ve heard about that, but I still cannot believe it’s true.

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      • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is why googling is a skill, even if I don’t know then some 15 year old kid from Bangladesh has a YouTube tutorialon it

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• nitefox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why? Tech tests are fine, absurd complex tests for shitty jobs are not

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  • toasteecup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you find some that are reasonable then I consider you lucky. I have not. They’ve only ever proven to be an absurd waste of time in my experience.

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    • nitefox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I only got quite simple tests tbf, but I don’t look for senior positions. Main thing is to just get the problem solved writing decent code (if it’s a home assignment) or to walk them through your reasonings

      The only time I got a leetcode waste of time it was a Dijsktra/A* problem (which I failed)

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