Applied for a £22k Web Developer Job Php laravel in particular and get tasked with this.

Well that isn't hard.

And how much time are you supposed to spend on this?

Plenty of e-commerce solutions built on laravel, that offer that out of the box lol..
Wonder what they would reply if simply linked a GitHub repo... :D

@classClass couple of days. I'll have it done in the morning lol. Work all night oh yeah!

Add tests, they are very important and it doesn't take too much time to write them!

@lotd true this is just a test of coding ability though. :)

@simeg oh definitely I don't want my code to break all TDD will be done :)

@simeg already Clocking up that time :)

@pchater nice!! Hope you get the job, please report back (and please mention my username otherwise I probably wont see it). Rock on! 🤘🏻👍🏻

Is this for an interview? I would reply "I don't work for free!"

@pchater vim todo list I guess.
Lol totally thought it was the output of a equo command on sabayon, at first glance :D

@lotd Nope, you are close. More like Evil mode ;] simply for logging time :). VIM for actual code but I'm switching to Atom now.

@chrisrhymes I'm not mean and it gets my foot in the door for professional work :)

@pchater is this some software or just a styled text in the editor?

O_o. I know this test. I might see you soon in our office.

Edit: nvm not flow. But the test is exactly the same..

@pchater sometimes you have to prove yourself to get a job, I just hope they are not taking you for a ride.

Good luck and let us know how you get on!

@chrisrhymes nah didn't sound like they were taking me for a ride. I've been doing Dev for years just never done it commercially. :)

@DarkMukke Heyy! I didn't even mention Flow. Damn it. :p I take you are from the North East :) update: but it does mention it in that file I should have omitted.

@pchater Nottingham

@DarkMukke Ahhh :)

@pchater
Is that some program for sorting todos?Looks really good for organizing your work!

@Deniii Just Emacs with Evil and Orgmode :)

@pchater awesome! And there's a Vim plugin - boom installed.

That's frankly a stupid test imo.

Granted, it's not hard, just time consuming.

You cannot test the entire breath of someone's knowledge in a skills type test, although this bordered of a full blown job.

I written commerce systems from scratch in the past. Unless I'm being paid a lot money, never ever again - even with a good framework.

@rallport well all my efforts didn't go a miss, I done a sterling job and went above and beyond for the company which made them feel valued and landed me the position :)

@pchater it's still stupid example for a skills test imo :)

@rallport ^_^

@rallport tbf I'm no longer there even though I had a month trial, just simply did not work out. That decision was made out today.

Laravel applied, no laravel code or projects and slapped into Wordpress theme building & working with their opencart bastardisation of an ecommerce system. = waste of my time and efforts.

@pchater I'm sorry to hear. Come find me on devrant community on slack.

@DarkMukke not OP but... WE HAVE A SLACK COMMUNITY?

@Deniii yes devrantcommunity dot slack dot com

@DarkMukke ah nice! Need an invite to the team though