I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Engineer ROI
Interview
After getting in contact with them, they provide you a practical test: a simple exercise that involved the technologies they are looking for. If they like your solution, they contact you for a Skype interview. Everything was organized and communication/feedback was on point.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Engineer ROI (Hurst, TX) in Sept 2018
Interview
They (I suspect that the company consists of a single person though, check their website out) ask you to complete a coding test online.
You are required to create a REST API in Django and a web UI in Vue.JS (a full-stack solution).
The task's description was somewhat half-baked and had errors. I soon realized that they didn't spend much time on it (probably the first time they released it to anyone).
The feedback is that I did extremely well and that my technical knowledge is excellent, but unfortunately I "over-engineered it" by breaking the solution into two services (a back-end and a front-end).
Even though they ask for "best practices" in the requirements and decoupling the API and the UI is considered best practice... *sigh*
I don't think that they know what best practices are (or at least the INDUSTRY's best practices).
Everybody thinks that their own personal practices are "the best practices"... lol.
Agile, Clean Code, S.O.L.I.D. Principles, Pragmatic Programming, etc, what they advocate, all of it can be considered best practices and any of them would consider decoupling the API and the UI a best practice (nothing too fancy, really, I only used web-pack as a build manager).
"They" (I know its only one dude! lol) expected me to put the API and the UI together, that is, use Django templates with Vue.JS. Fine with me if you like quick and dirty, but doing this is obviously not best practice (this wasn't in the requirements by the way).
Anyone who actually follow "best practices" would be against it. This quick and dirty solution clearly violate S.O.L.I.D. principles.
I didn't even reply back. I already wasted too much time with these delusional people (or PERSON to be precise: one single dude, I'm pretty sure).
I did look at their website previously to applying (which looks like it was designed and made using Microsoft Word). I wouldn't present that website to a client who is a 70-years old and just "learned Internet" past month, so he could follow Donald Trump's tweets.
They even quote "themselves" on the website. You know what, the website does look like it belongs to the septuagenary I imagined earlier. This quote should be in there:
"When I was your age, the Earth didn't HAVE a crust! We walked on the mantle, and we were DAMN GRATEFUL when air was invented! #GodBlessPresidentTrump #MAGA #Murica #EarlyBirdSpecialsRule" -- Old Man Yelling to Cloud.
Not an actual quote. I thought it was fitting and funny though.
I should have been more careful looking them up, but I was feeling like it was a good excuse to try "bootstrap-vue" in a new project and add it to my portfolio.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you know what "the best practices" are? Did you read them in my biography?
