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I took the toptal test as well and ended up failing due to "additional" requirements not shown on the test.
Of course the test itself is, as you point out, really just a series of questions that have no meaning related to programming.
It's too bad that companies fall into these traps of thinking that tricky math questions can show whether you can program or not. I myself tried this in the past with people I hired, and found out the hard way that you end up with people who show off well, but do not have good coding skills.
mvarey
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Marc Clifton wrote: the point in which in an array, the count of X from the left != count of X from the right.
Count of X as in the number of times X appears?
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I hire online developers (in a small way).
My teenage son (a keen developer), a couple years back, tried to get me to hire people from TopTal.
"No way", I said, "they are all pose".
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I submitted that to Urban Dictionary: a tech support person that behaves like a bot by asking canned questions, reading the replies, and clicking on canned responses. 
Marc
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Increasingly common, sad to say..
'PLAN' is NOT one of those four-letter words.
'When money talks, nobody listens to the customer anymore.'
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Perhaps "Eliza" would be a good synonym...
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Also - "Thoughtomaton" - operative who can do their job without independent thought
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Pertebot - Tech person acting like bot.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
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I think Apple calls it Siri. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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How about botson instead? 
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Is Peter Pan always flying because he can Neverland?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Always flying? He must be Hooked on something.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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It's because he's lost, boy.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Wendy'd that happen?
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I'd tell you, but a crocodile ate my clock.
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We need to Barrie this thread.
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It was a translitteration error of the chinese dubber: Pan should always fry.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Disney have anything better to do?
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Nana he can fly....
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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He don't like to be in the Tubby, Ted!
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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So I needed a new pan because my the handle broke off my old one just the other day.
Come back from the store, unpack it, and it flies right out of the windows.
Turns out I bought a Peter Pan 
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I think you've lost that boy!
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I Tink you're on to something.
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If he were a lead guitarist pioneering in the key of G, wouldn't that be none other than @OriginalGriff?
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You'll make me fret...don't string me along!
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