Thoughts on HackerRank riddles being used for a tech screen.
So I recently had a tech screen from a well established company, not a tech giant. The position was more about a DevOps engineer, focusing on continues integration, automation, immutable infrastructure, cloud etc.
For tech screen they gave me a HackerRank quiz which had 6 pretty tough programming questions (riddles as I must say) which was required to be solved in 1.5 hours.
I think the question in no way tested me for any of the mentioned job responsibilities. Not even coding, datastructure, Linux internals or any well know algorithms. It was if you know answer to riddle you can code the solution.
What are your thoughts on such a tech screen .
I was able to solve 2/6 questions, with time running out when I was fixing edge cases for third one.
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