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I just got one of these for a mobile position. "Please complete this coding interview. It should take about 3 hours." Me: "I've been writing mobile apps since the app store launched in 2008. Can we skip this step?" Corp: "Sorry, good luck on your search!"

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> I've been writing mobile apps since the app store launched in 2008

That's your main mistake, admitting that. I'm sure they were looking for someone with five more years of experience than that.

You should have been writing apps in a text editor waiting for the app store to come into existence, you know. I'm sure they picked someone with at least that much experience.

Is it just me thinking it is weird to get hackerrank tests where they use a lot of Java stdin stdout on the test for a mobile position? It might be because that's the only way to grade tests on the platform but I have never used that in an Android app.

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