The most absurd tests I've ever taken for a dev job
I'm fuming pretty hard right now, and just wanted to commiserate with other job-seekers.
I had the opportunity to interview for a large company in California for a Java developer position. Previously I have 2 years experience in Java.
This company sent me two tests: one of them was a single question, to develop an algorithm that adds huge strings of numbers together without using any conversion. My webcam had to be on, recording my face the entire time, and I was not allowed to use documentation or tab out or anything. I was okay with this one even though I found it to be overkill.
The second test was a THREE HOUR LONG, 60 QUESTION TEST with tons of questions like "Will this extremely long piece of code compile? Why not?" and "Which code block should replace the ***** line?" etc. and was riddled with tons of weird grammatical and spelling errors like "Which line should be catched the exception?"
It was so ridiculous I just quit halfway through, emailed the company, and told them I wasn't interested any longer.
Anyone ever experienced this kind of bullshit?
Posted Sep 9, 2020, 7:59 PM UTC