Random Rants
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@Steffen it's common for IT companies in Australia to demand a coding test be completed, normally before an interview takes place.
Typically they'll ask you to write an Android app to do the following:
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Connect to a remote server, and download a piece of data.
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Process the data, typically from JSON, into a format that the program can use.
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Create a UI to display the data, normally this has one or two screens.
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There might be other requirements, such as store the data to a database, handle screens rotating, or display the results on a Google Maps window.
None of this is difficult, and there's very little scope of doing anything clever. But it can take a few days to put one together from scratch, because coding is a slow process.
The thing is that they could ask me for a piece of sample code (to see my style), and an outline of how I'd approach the problem (to see if I miss anything important), which would tell them as much as the test, and only take half an hour.
British IT companies don't run their candidates through this testing rigmarole. It seems to be an Aussie phenomena.
@Snowy the lead role involved a lot of work interacting with the business, and this was the side that appealed.
@Giles I agree.
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Graeme, I know a few big US companies that do similar style of testing as a pre-screen to a phone interview these days. One of the larger ones does 2-3x in person interviews in 1 day where you're expected to write real-world code on a whiteboard for ~1hr each time to solve a problem. Not an aussie thing, think it's more a supply/demand problem.
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@Snowy I had an interview with Facebook a couple of years ago that was a day of interviews with whiteboard tests. I can't remember if there were three or four. My brain was fried about halfway through.
Didn't get the job, unfortunately.
I've just dropped a CV into Atlassian to see what they say.
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Screw you, NBCSN. I don't want to watch SOU play LIV in the Premier League. I don't know who those teams are, and I don't care. I want to watch curling, luge and other obscure sports; which is what your online guide promised to be showing right now.
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Screw you, NBCSN. I don't want to watch SOU play LIV in the Premier League. I don't know who those teams are, and I don't care. I want to watch curling, luge and other obscure sports; which is what your online guide promised to be showing right now.
Those things you mention, “curling” and “loogies”, you just made them up didn’t you, they’re not real. You crack me up Chris [emoji1]
Also any sport without an offside rule isn’t really a sport and shouldn’t be on TV.
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Curling is basically snooker on ice. And how can anyone hate a sport that has broomstacking?
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I just watched a great tiebreaker match between the Chinese and Norwegian mixed doubles teams to decide who advances to the quarterfinals. You bring shame to your country of residence, neph.
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There was only one great sporting event today, wasn’t there @manufc10
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There was only one great sporting event today, wasn’t there @manufc10
Let's not talk about that. Seriously what the eff is going on with them?! Kudos to Newcastle and no disrespect to them but damn there is no reason we should be losing to them. Can't we just put sir Alex back in charge? He's at every freaking game anyways.
fuck I hate when that shit happens , those two matched perfect and now…start all over again.rant off. 
