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I recently was approached by an intermediary firm on behalf of another company looking for Android developers. They asked me to do a code challenge and post the source code to GitHub, which I did. About 1-2 weeks later, they asked me to do another code challenge for the prospective client/employer at their request. I've never been asked to do more than one code challenge for a prospective contract/job.
How many of you have been asked to do multiple code challenges for a prospective job? This seems a bit strange to me. The code challenges are not major projects. However they are the kind that would take a full day to complete so they aren't completely trivial either. I'm trying to find out how common this is and whether or not I should assume that the prospective client/employer isn't really serious and is just "kicking the (my) tires" by asking for multiple code challenges.
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No. I've only been asked to do very simple things. One I remember is...
Given two strings, determine if one is a rotation of the other, e.g. "houseboat" and "boathouse".
My solution is a one-liner.
roscler wrote: the kind that would take a full day to complete so they aren't completely trivial
I would assume they are trying to get me to work a day for free, and I won't do that.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: My solution is a one-liner.
What
if (string1.IsRotationOf(string2))
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I may be a bit jaded, but this sounds like a company trying to get some free stuff at your expense. Either that, or they have one or two other applicants who posted some promising work, and want to sort among you for the best. I'd go along with it one more time, but if you're asked for a third round, I'd demand a seance with the principals before complying.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: I'd demand a seance with the principals before complying.
You're going to kill the interviewers? 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Save a life, take a life 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I didn't realize that was a law in the US!
So...if I pull you out of the path of a speeding train, I can slaughter Bieber with legal impunity?
Sweet!
Um...got any railroads near you? How much do you weigh? :InnocentWhistleSmiley:
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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OriginalGriff wrote: I didn't realize that was a law in the US!
Well, it's a gray area. It is frowned upon in most states
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Don't try it in the northeast, but you're fine here in the southwest.
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roscler wrote: they asked me to do another code challenge for the prospective client/employer at their request
Even if they are not trying to screw you, it's a stupid policy. Unless it's lot of money in question, I'd rather spend that day staring into blank space, then 'proving' my 'worth' to company like that. I mean, do you really need two days to determine if someone can code, seriously? If you need that much time, maybe you're not that good developers after all.
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"A second code challenge, no problem, my rate is £X an hour, is that cool with you?" would be more or less my response
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That's an excellent response!
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So I took a cruise through Oatman and the mountains behind it on the way home from work tonight, scouting for a likely place to go shooting this weekend. I am careful to look for places that are on public lands - no private property - with a good backstop, few rocks, and no vegetation, since the fire hazard is so high this year.
While hiking about a likely spot, I ran across a young woman who was obviously despondent, at the end of her rope, standing on the edge of a cliff and trying to work up the courage to jump. Naturally I was terribly concerned about such a tragic waste, so I approached her and asked,
"Miss, since it's clear that you intend to kill yourself, would you mind having sex with me first?"
She shoved me away and screamed, "You perverted bastard! Get away from me!"
I'm a patient fellow, and not wanting to cause her any further pain, I walked away, telling her on parting, "That's okay. I'll just go wait at the bottom."
My package never arrived... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's just maybe I'm more sensitive or it's not suppose to be in the Lounge.
but it's funny. 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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You're absolutely right, Karen; it really shouldn't be in the Lounge. It's borderline, but the funny factor outweighed naughty bit. Besides, I don't know of any modern kid sister who would find it shocking or naughty. Standards have slipped from the days when I was a kid brother.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yeah. Kids these days are more open to those topics unlike kids before.
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Quite funny.
It wasn't because that you waited below that she never jumped. I was next in line.
Is KSR supposed to be KSS or a variation?
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You wanted to jump after her for Roger? You are one disturbed little puppy. 
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It's KSS as long as it's not my sister?
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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And not for the reasons you might think, no it's much worse:
http://imgur.com/OaEFniI[^]
I've been using Windows 8 since the first developer preview waay back, and have defended it against the naysayers, and then it goes and does this on me. After a while, my desktop/downloads/recent places links become rendered useless! This has happened multiple times on multiple machines, and no I don't use a Microsoft account, always sign into the machine locally so it's not like it happened once and then synced to the other machines. Anybody any idea why this happens?
Had this on both 8.0 and 8.1 on different occasions, 
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Maybe it happens because it is a Microsoft product!
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Or by pressing shift and then right clicking and selecting 'open with'.
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Well that looks fun. A quick search shows people having this issue on Windows 7 as well, though, and it has something to do with file associations; restoring the defaults seems to fix it. (Now can one restore the defaults without wiping out any associations you've added while installing applications? Hope so.)
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