Welcome to my digital graveyard of test assignments -- gravestones to the days I wasted on corporate screenings. From microservice game servers to asyncio coffee shop banter, each project is a testament to my grit.
These companies, with their assembly-line hiring, demand you bleed hours on tasks while refusing a 15-minute chat to gauge your skills.
Dive into my saga of snubbed brilliance—clever solutions, savage rejections, and zero regrets. Time wasted: Countless hours. Lessons learned: Priceless.
- The game server using microservice architecture for Digit Game Studios.
It took 9 hours to complete, but technical verdict was: "Lack of knowledge on transactions/atomicity".
- The REST API endpoints for creating/serving recipes for getdrop.com
The application is working, but they have found "someone better", lol.
- Publisher/Subscriber service on Erlang for Celtra
It uses Cowboy web frwmework with mnesia db in order to receive and server messages using websockets. "A different skill set needed".
- Log parser for RadarServices.com
Their response: "our requirements are very high". This is funny, as the script is just a log parser.
- To implement the UK post code validation library for scurri.com
The task was to implement a production-ready library for UK post code validation. Of course a reasonable programmer would use one of many existing libraries.
- Real-time, asyncio-based conversational AI simulation between a coffee shop guest and employee. for hi.auto
It took about an hour and resonse was:
After a check with the team, we decided not to proceed with your candidacy for this position. They clearly saw from the recording that the assignment you uploaded after 5 minutes included the exact menu and prices listed in the instructions of our assignment.
My observations:
- Team don't care if you waste 3 hours; they won't talk to you before you invest 3 hours of your time.
- They clearly "saw" something they were uncertain about, but they didn't want to risk wasting their time with me. Yet they had no issue with me spending 3 hours on their assignment.
- It wasn't an AI assignment, but rather a general asyncio Python exercise. This was a typically misleading task, with the company claiming they didn't have anyone who could assess candidates' skills during a 15-minute phone call.
- AWS CDK infrastructure project enabling retrieval augmented generation for universities for impressit.io
It was a complete serverless architecture with API Gateway, containerized services on Fargate, OpenSearch for RAG capabilities, RDS storage, and robust security features.
They did not care to respond after I provided code.
- Document management web application assessment with a Django/Python backend and React frontend for propylon.com
I delivered required implementation with file upload and retrieval bash script. Server side used a custom FileModel that organizes files into a hierarchical directory structure based on FK IDs.
No response since then.