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0 pointsjmiserez10y ago0 comments

>I tell them to send what they have in after two hours that I'm as interested in seeing the structure and thought process than the final result.

While this seems like a good idea on paper, you know that people are not going to stop after 2 hours unless you force them to (i.e. by doing the assignment on-site).

>get it done in 30 minutes, and intermediate 2 hours and a junior probably not finish.

What kind of exercise could a junior programmer not finish? Give up or produce miserable code sure, but not being able to finish? Do you require some really strange domain-specific knowledge?

PS: The website in your profile doesn't seem to be working.

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dpeck10y ago

well with 3 attempts one went over and kept working until he got a solution (took a while), another stopped at around 2 hours to submit and asked for feedback, 3rd finished in time and is a badass.

You've be surprised. Maybe I expect too much, but the assignment is essentially network aware k/v store with a single get command and set command. Extremely poor mans redis and a step up from an echo server but for some people doing anything over a network that isn't HTTP breaks them.

Thanks for website, my consulting/blog site that pretty much fell into disrepair after taking architect position at a startup.

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