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submitted 6 months ago by tomatol@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Seriously, been working as a software developer for 9 years now and never passed a single coding test.

The jobs I got were always the ones giving me weekend projects or just no coding test at all.

I have a job opportunity that looks exciting but they sent me this coding test link and I know I'm gonna fail for sure. Any tips aside from the obvious (practicing in advance on leetcode etc)?

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[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

People have big egos. I've been in similiar situations as OP where the owner/CTO wrote a lot of the legacy code and weren't particularly receptive to criticism. No acknowledgement either when said criticism turned out to be a client facing vulnerability later on.

[-] tealeg@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah. Owning code is about taking responsibility for it being in a satisfactory state, it shouldn’t be overly personal and you also shouldn’t attack people directly when the code has problems. Everyone makes mistakes, learning from them is there important thing.

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