Etsy·Software Engineer

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Brooklyn, NYPosted Jan 2020 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying online, I got an at-home coding assessment that was based on debugging an existing Node.js web app.

In my run, the problem was fix-the-bugs style and required familiarity with JavaScript; I struggled because I wasn’t really comfortable with the language, and that immediately put me on the back foot.

As I tried to work through it, I ran into the practical side of these tests that can derail you even if you understand the concept. I remember dealing with browser access and IDE issues in the middle of the timer—at one point the challenge link didn’t behave, then I had to switch browsers, and I lost a big chunk of time before I could even get to a working environment.

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