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I have used this with a few clients. Memory leaks like a waterfall through a sock.
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What are your opinions of taking online coding tests in relation to getting a new role?
Take them or not?
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Most of the people taking them seem to end up in QA anyway, so you've probably done several dozen already... 
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OG...You mean QA doesn't mean Question Authority...elephant!
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The real question is surely whether you care to work for the sort of employer who thinks online coding tests are of value.
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Precisely this.
I refuse to take them on the grounds that they prove nothing. If they don't like it, I didn't want to work there anyway...
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Here's an example:
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Notice the misspellings and horrid grammar.
I love this question, which I got "wrong":
Ques 18 : Are private class-level variables can inherited?
(A) Yes, and we can access them
(B) No, and we can not access them
(C) Yes, but we can not access them
(D) All of the above are wrong
Answer : Yes, and we can access them
Ignoring the bad grammar, no, private class members cannot be accessed in subclasses. That is, after all, the definition of "private".
So, you decide whether online coding tests are BS or not. 
Marc
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Well, technically speaking their answer actually is correct.
But I doubt the test writer was thinking about Reflection when they wrote that question. 
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Vark111 wrote: But I doubt the test writer was thinking about Reflection when they wrote that question.
Exactly. According to my SO search, it's sort of a trick question, because the subclass does actually inherit the property. Not that it does it any good, haha.
Marc
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Do you want the role?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Not enough to make me take a ridiculous online coding test, apparently.
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When I first saw the test you linked to I thought "If they can't eve get the grammar right, how can they possibly expect the test results to be right?"
I'd pass and tell them exactly that = "Your test is screwey".
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Online Coding Tests - are as good as the schmucks that created them. It is as simple as that.
You are taking a gamble with that fact, when you take an online test.
I don't interview with companies that make me take online tests. I have left two interviews in the past because of this. It has not hurt my career in the slightest.
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I think it is very fair for an employer to ask you to take a code test to see what your style is, how you think, etc. We give one, but on paper. Your experience should be worth more than the test but it certainly does not hurt you to take one.
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Code tests at the office, with other Developers is great. I think the OP was referring to "online" tests, which are crap, most of the time.
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Slacker007 wrote: I think the OP was referring to "online" tests,
He did, but whether a code test is on paper or online, who cares? If they are crap, then fine, that is obvious.
I've seen some good online code tests before so I think it is unfair to globally dismiss code tests just because they are online.
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Just disregarding what kind of questions they are, If you like(or want) to get(or try) a new role, then take it else don't.
modified 19-Feb-16 13:10pm.
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The worst such question I recall began something like "Which of the following using statements are required to blah blah blah..."
0) They listed using directives; not using statements.
1) No using directives are ever required*; they're just a convenient way to bloat Intellisense beyond usability.
* Unless you want to use Extension Methods, but those didn't exist at the time.
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My opinion is that success in an online test means either:
0) You know the material
1) You know how to use Google/QA
At any rate, you have shown that you can solve problems.
Therefore, failure in an online test means either:
0) You are honest (pity)
1) You are moronic
This reminds me of college when some dreaded tests were done in the lab. It was never said that we couldn't use available resources (good ol' F1) to solve the problems. This came in particularly handy in networking lab!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Took one many moons ago, answered the questions. One question on pointers accessing a port I answered the test said I had it wrong, due to my own bull headed I contacted the firm told them explained carefully how none of the answers covered the question properly. Had a face to face with them later in week  . Didn't like the company!
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Are pigs often hambidextrous?
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I imagine responses will be posted on an ad hock basis.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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I imagine half of 'em are scratching their heads trying to make a "bacon" pun... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Only the rasher amongst us would rise to such a challenge
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