Software Engineering CareerJun 25, 2020
Oraclemod(0)
new relic take home
has anyone else done this? i have twice submitted solutions for their take home exercise. My first was questionable....but it got me another interview. that interview was good, i was told. a bit later i was rejected based on the code submission that was originally accepted. second one i cleaned up a lot. it rocked the requirements i was given. even exceeding some. i corrected all the previous mistakes and incorporated the managers feedback from last time...albeit succinct. after a few weeks...rejected based on code submission. I have no idea wtf they expect to find in that code. If you are willing to share....i would love to compare implementations. i hate these take home things. incredibly ambiguous acceptance criteria.
Stop doing take homes. If you think people will actually go through your solution you are greatly mistaken. It's hard enough getting peer reviews from colleagues on a common, supposedly known codebase. What do you think they'll do with new stuff thrown at them w/o the person in question there? Last take-home that I did was for a senior position and evaluated ( and rejected) by their intern.
This is good advice. I had vowed to stop doing them. I did this one since I thought it should be a no brainer with my previous solution and limited feedback in hand. I was naive.