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Politely refuse a lengthy test
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Originally posted by cojak View PostThis isn’t a test, it’s a free consultation.
Also name and shame the company - pretty sure their customers will be most interested in how much money they are (not) investing in their product.Comment
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Originally posted by tarbera View PostPost it here we can do it as a project between ourselvesMaybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on.Comment
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Originally posted by Hobosapien View PostWhich we can deliberately ensure is not going to work, though it will appear to them like it will, so when the client goes live with it we have a backdoor into their system and can spam their customers with messages of how crap the client is.
When they didn't pay for it all the numbers sharted falling off the screen which just goes to show, in Hollywood programmers spend 95% of delvelopmemnt time on fancy tumbling number effects and exotic bomb countdown screen that get blown up anyway, assuming the 5% to make the bomb actually explodes.
My favourite was in 'The Thirteenth Floor' - they had this prototype VR machine that was nowhere near ready to use and not to even try, but all the countdowns, voice instructions and swooping green laser effects worked. The time machine in 'Primer' was best, it was basically just a bag you got into....Comment
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Originally posted by Snarf View PostI have a friend who when he attended an interview was given a list of real bugs and a copy of the clients mobile app and told to see how many they could fix....
I politely explained that to the client, then went on to draw on the whiteboard how I would fix the issue.
They weren't videoing my talk on how to fix it and I didn't repeat myself, nor did they have time to take substantive notes. At the end, I said "and that's the basis of how I would fix it", then wiped the whiteboard clean.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Just explain to them it would take 3 days to do and you are happy to do it for your usual day rate.
I never take tests directly from the Agency, often it's just a way for them to get you to invest time with them. It's hard not to give references, rates etc when you have invested a morning or day doing a test for them.Comment
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It involves developing a batch and real time data ingestion platform in Google Cloud using technologies like Kafka, Flume, Spark and Hadoop and serve it using an API that queries an Elastic Search Index. In addition to this a 4-5 page Power point presentation showing architectural diagram and discussion.
Outrageous.Comment
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Thanks everyone. I have let the agency know that I won't be doing this test. I also mentioned the reason.
Initially I was a little worried that they may think I am refusing it because of lack of my technical skills but I don't care now.Comment
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Originally posted by greypanda View PostThanks everyone. I have let the agency know that I won't be doing this test. I also mentioned the reason.
Initially I was a little worried that they may think I am refusing it because of lack of my technical skills but I don't care now.Comment
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Well done for sticking to your guns on this.
There's a client local to me that always asks for a mini-project as a test before they'll even consider an interview. I've always refused, it's probably 4-5 days work including testing.
I told the agency it was incredibly insulting to ask for that sort test given the amount of experience I've got and was the sort of think I might expect for a permie role (although even then I still wouldn't do it).
To be fair to them they apologised and said other candidates had the same opinion but apparently the end client's HR department () does this for permies and contractors alike.Do what thou wiltComment
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