Another coding test that takes 2 hours.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Don’t tell me it’s one of those take homes 😑

I wonder, what are these tests about? I never had to do any take-home tests. People asked for my github profile but they never asked to do a project for them.

If it's creating some example project it's fine by me. If you have to do puzzles, I skip.

I once refused to make a django blog and offered to make something else. Stupid blogs. Reason is, is that it's the starter tutorial from django. So, if you perfectly follow that, you're basically hired I guess. But it's no way of proofing yourself. Made something else and got hired. It's because having strong opinion I guess.

Once a company said "It's not really impressive.". I said that it at least was complete with no caveats and tested well, automated as manually and that it was exactly what asked and just left it there. Later got phone call that I was hired. So, they just wanted to know how you deal with criticism. Meh.

My favorite hiring method was: take a private project and present it to team.

They were very bored about my python project. I was reading the room. Halfway I said that I prefer to show something else and presented an interpreter written by C. I got a shitload of questions but had answer for everything. Also, got hired as python dev because of that :D I swear, if I continued presenting the python app, I would've not be hired.

Are you networking or applying or both to actually get responses from employers? I get almost nothing but crickets from most places.

@TeachMeCode Why yes, yes it is.

@wojtek322 They're usually about testing your DSA skills, efficient sorting algorithms, bla bla.

@YourMom Just applying, but I try to use A.I. to tell me how my CV can be improved. I don't upload my CV but I just type it all over onto a notepad, which I then input into the A.I.

It seems stage 1 of the job seeking process is polishing your resume as much as possible. Stage 2 would be the targeting. Something I have to work on is tailoring my CV and cover letters to each application.

It's a numbers game I would say. Just try to increase the highest likelihood that your input matches their requirements.

Impressiv