"Codewars" and other coding challenge sites
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I will not participate in them. I find them to be about as valuable as sudoku and only if I ignore the problems with them. They teach you to be good at coding challenges. They don't teach you to be good at writing software. Recruiters end up fishing in that pond looking for talent, which does everyone a disservice. I think the world would be a better place without these kinds of sites. You want a code challenge? Post something here and/or on Github. How many stars and forks do you get? And hey, that can actually translate into paying work.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I will not participate in them. I find them to be about as valuable as sudoku and only if I ignore the problems with them. They teach you to be good at coding challenges. They don't teach you to be good at writing software. Recruiters end up fishing in that pond looking for talent, which does everyone a disservice. I think the world would be a better place without these kinds of sites. You want a code challenge? Post something here and/or on Github. How many stars and forks do you get? And hey, that can actually translate into paying work.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I will not participate in them. I find them to be about as valuable as sudoku and only if I ignore the problems with them. They teach you to be good at coding challenges. They don't teach you to be good at writing software. Recruiters end up fishing in that pond looking for talent, which does everyone a disservice. I think the world would be a better place without these kinds of sites. You want a code challenge? Post something here and/or on Github. How many stars and forks do you get? And hey, that can actually translate into paying work.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Amen!
Mircea
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I will not participate in them. I find them to be about as valuable as sudoku and only if I ignore the problems with them. They teach you to be good at coding challenges. They don't teach you to be good at writing software. Recruiters end up fishing in that pond looking for talent, which does everyone a disservice. I think the world would be a better place without these kinds of sites. You want a code challenge? Post something here and/or on Github. How many stars and forks do you get? And hey, that can actually translate into paying work.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
And half the time, you get people looking for a solution to them so the recruiters think they are good targets ... :sigh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I will not participate in them. I find them to be about as valuable as sudoku and only if I ignore the problems with them. They teach you to be good at coding challenges. They don't teach you to be good at writing software. Recruiters end up fishing in that pond looking for talent, which does everyone a disservice. I think the world would be a better place without these kinds of sites. You want a code challenge? Post something here and/or on Github. How many stars and forks do you get? And hey, that can actually translate into paying work.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Much the same with "Aptitude tests" or "Intelligence tests". They wind up selecting for "gaming the test" skillz, rather than anything meaningful in the real world.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Recruiters end up fishing in that pond looking for talent, which does everyone a disservice.
Recruitment processes could be certainly perfected.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto
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CPallini wrote:
could be certainly perfected.
To me that implies the process is already on the right track and getting there. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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You are right, and that's not what I really meant (my bad English).
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto
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Please take no offense. I didn't mean it that way. I was pointing out the fault(s) in the interviewing process, not how you presented it. :-)
