Strange… The finance company I work at also does this. And it’s so strange. I feel like they value Jira tickets more than actual work being done. It’s even funnier cause we get asked to close work when we want to go into prod and told to create new tickets to put our work in to prod. which kind of is annoying.
The React docs give some nice ideas. I organise with features and it honestly works so well for my needs but experimentation is so key with figuring out.
I found one of the weird positives of going through a life changing crisis was during that period, what interests I did have at the time really were what I wanted to do. I kept just those interests up and it really helped give me some direction. But YMMV on that one.
I always understood it was to filter out dudes who’d succeed at it: people who have a lot of spare time who would use that spare time to grind really hard for some arbitrary coding test. As an employer, I’d look at that dude and think: this dude could defo do overtime and he likes coding! We’ll take him. But that’s my two cents.
When I was looking for a new tech job, I got sick of trying to figure out which Leetcode Pattern I was gonna practice so I just threw all of them on a list and gave me one a day.
The reason it only gives you one random thing a day is cause I didn’t wanna try “re-roll” the pattern I was gonna practice to give me something easier.
My last job had me updating a legacy service in a totally different language to what i was hired for a technology that was gonna get replaced in one month - hence rendering one months effort as useless.
I schedule things. I put nice long stretches of time (we are talking about 4-6 hours about) and it’s pretty much ONLY time I ever get anything done. I need long periods of time cause the start is all about building focus but not forcing it so YMMV. I think experimentation is super helpful.
Honestly, when it comes Avatars for my development needs, I just use Emojis. It’s just really easy to set up compared to getting anything more complicated.
Did you know you can also use a data-URI as a favicon? And if you use a <text> element inside that SVG, you can set any text as a favicon - including an emoji.
For example, this sets the favicon to a little picture of the text "!!!":
You can also replace the "!!!" in the above snippet with any emoji, and it works. (I couldn't do an emoji here because HN filters them out.)
You could maybe add this as an option for copying code from your site, and the result will work without any request to any server (with the caveat that the emoji design will vary depending on OS).
Methinks it’s a good enough method to somehow get good enough candidates. Hiring is hard because it’s a negotiation: sellers always upsell their skills and buyers gotta figure it out. Negotiation is skill that not everyone has so at least by having some sort of standard test like the current leetcode system, you can guarantee the dudes coming in know the difference between a Stack and Queue
