Wait, they got in through take-home leetcode tests?
That’s damn clever.
I program Apple software, and Xcode projects can dig deep. Apple gives you a warning about opening a downloaded project, but you’re almost certain to ignore that, if you think it’s a take-home.
I assume that taking online ones would ask for hairy access, as well.
Also, the people going for these would probably have pretty damn good access to the corporate Crown Jewels.
Of course, no one would use corporate resources for job-hunting, right? I know that folks here, get all huffy, when I suggest that happens rather frequently.
>Of course, no one would use corporate resources for job-hunting, right? I know that folks here, get all huffy, when I suggest that happens rather frequently.
Where I work we have a take home exercise we have candidates do and then when we have the interview with that person we review their code with them and ask them to make incremental changes to see how they handle the asks with their communication skills and their technical ability. I interviewed one individual who couldn’t even get the REPL started for their project and as they were struggling trying to get it to work I heard them mumble to themself “I should have just use my work computer”. The fact they couldn’t get the most basic aspect of the project to work on their personal meant that they did their coding assignment on their work computerInteresting. What makes work provided computers better suited for coding?
Me, I don't recall using company hardware for anything even remotely personal in many years. It's stupid because they are loaded with all kinds of spyware.
When you spend eight hours coding on your work computer, you make lots of little tweaks to improve workflow. If you then do nearly no coding on your home computer, it's unlikely that you will perform the same tweaks. I try to keep my systems set up almost identically, but that's a lot of work. (I now try to use ansible for that but after playing around for a bit I'm having doubts if it was the right choice. Keeping everything in sync is not exactly ergonomic.)
Some particular quirk of autocompletion could become almost pure muscle memory, and if it's suddenly missing, you notice.