Comments by Foryinath (Top 2 by date)

Foryinath 14-Jul-15 9:05am View

First, you mentioned that previously you worked in customer service field. I'm not sure if others would agree with me but I personally believe that the skills you got there will be useful in certain degree. What I mean is that if you've been working with the clients (end users) on a regular basics then I believe it's safe to presume that you have good communication skills, patience, maybe even troubleshooting skills (I'm not exactly sure what your role was).

Now regarding the tests, efficient thinking and problem solving skills are improved over time so the experience is the key here. However you can improve these skills by practising, just like you improve your general knowledge of programming.
For example I would suggest you to visit this site with programming aptitude tests. The site provides a service for testing out programming skills, but you'll find a lot of publicly available tests in their "Test library" and you could use those tests for practising.

Foryinath 14-Jul-15 8:45am View

Were you looking for a big O or something else like me?
Your question is a bit ambiguous and I found it while I was searching for an answer to my problem.

You see I was looking for a way how I could calculate an approximate time that would be needed to solve some coding test for an interview based on the provided solution for that test.
For example if you check out these C++ programming tests for interviews you'll notice that writing a solution that detects if a word is an anagram should take less than 15 min and writing a solution that detects if a sentence is a palindrome should take less than 20 min.

In case anyone is looking for this as well I would like to mention that I found a very useful resources by searching for "evidence-based scheduling".