Q if your here please read this. American citizens are being scammed to the tune of a trillion dollars a year in salaries and jobs. Here is something I just wrote to another clueless recruiter.
Thanks for your time:
I just wanted to give you an example of a test that I got from a one of the big tech financial names, if not the biggest, for your reference. I was asked to program something in notepad website in the last ten minutes of an interview. The interviewer ask me to write some code of a problem that their team was working on all day to see how I handle real world problems. They needed a javascript largest contiguous result set of identical pattern matching values from an iterable point for both incremental and decrimental positions. I couldn't do it in the allotted time but after the interview I sat with a real ide and did it and gave them an honest assessment of time; which is a little over an hour partially because I use clojurescript instead of javascript es6. Here it is, test it yourself or have your client test it, they will know.
function match(a,b){
return a===b;
}
var lowIdx = 0;
var highIdx = 0;
var diff = 0;
function seq(){
let x = [4,4,1,2,3,3,2,1,5,4];
let set = [];
let sets = [];
for(var i=0; i<x.length; i++){
var f = x[i];
var s = x[i+1];
if(match(f,s)){
highIdx = i+1;
diff = (highIdx - lowIdx);
;
console.log("l " + lowIdx + " h " + highIdx + " diff " + diff);
set.push(x.splice(lowIdx, diff*2+lowIdx));
lowIdx = highIdx-1;
}
}
return Math.max.apply(…set.length);
}
console.log(seq());
var z = [];
z.push([1]);
z.push([1,2])
z.push([1,2,3,4])
Sorry if format in email doesn't come out right. But here is the catch, if you were paying attention the interviewer said that the team was working on all day. They had 12 people on that team, yet I was expected to do the work in 10 minutes. So not only were they fishing for code to solve their problems but doing it at my expense. 12 people x 7 hours x 60 minutes in an hour = 5040 minutes they got to do it but I was only allotted 10 minutes. You'd think they'd be happy with 60 minutes and make a job offer. They probably never figured it out if they said all day or finished at the end of the day.
This is one of many that have done this, I've even had some ask for a week long project. This is why their is a technical buffer to begin with, no walk in applications, no phone numbers, and donot@reply.emails.
Trust me when I say that the Patriots of this country know what's going on and will deal with it all at once; sooner than most realize.
Hope to hear from you again, enjoy the show.