Judge this full stack coding OA
Just took a 2 hr coding assessment of a no-name startup. The Q's are 1Q - 5 min pretty simple 2Q - build an API, post and get endpoints and implement pagination (cursor) 3Q - develop a react autocomplete on search bar component getting the data from API with loading bar styling while fetching the results from scratch. I was unable to finish it as my experience is 1 year (couldn't finish even after searching on google) and also they're looking for 3 yoe. But people with 3 yoe out there is this assessment doable in 2 hours? If not why are the companies having this kind of assessments? What should I do in the next 2 years to be at that level. TC : 🥜 #engineering #software #swe #coding #assessments
TBH 2-3 hours is a sweet spot to judge how much dev you have done before. If this was days, its useless to judge. Everyone will have the exact same implementation. Having said that don’t lose hope, it’s a great failure if you did fail. This probably a great question you are asking yourself. Good luck!
Got it. Thank you
Agreed, you asking this question and focusing on how to better yourself is the single most important step in the right direction
This is pretty reasonable for 2 hours for take home assuming you're allowed to reference online material and vague domain knowledge (1.5 YOE) This varies from fairly easy to brutally difficult depending on well you understand algorithms (if you're implementing the autocomplete)
cool, looks like I need to level up then. Thanks
Also, learning how to achieve something complex like this with the smallest amount of actual effort or code written is important, practice customizing existing code to fit your purposes