Are there actual licensed engineering professionals (ie electrical, mechanical) who resort to some made up ranks to separate themselves from the herd and use puzzles to judge the skillset of a potential employee? How does this work in industries other than software? Just genuinely curious here.
Is "Show HN" an appropriate category for a link to a TechCruch coverage? (Unless you are the creator of TechCrunch... and expect us learn about it from this post.)
I love the general principle of this and applies to other professions.<p>I work in finance and accounting and it's rare for someone's technical skills to be evaluated in an interview.<p>The problem with that is that the profession becomes overrun with people who have zero ability to actually get things done in an efficient manner.<p>Not everyone need to be a coder, but most professionals do need to know how to leverage machines to automate their workflow and generate deeper insights.<p>If I were hiring people in my field (finance/accounting) I would love to use something like this to make sure a candidate can accomplish some basic analytic tasks and workflow automation tasks.
It would be really nice if something like this existed for internships - some of the companies listed (like Uber) seem to be extraordinarily hard to get a response from if you don't go to a target school.
While I cannot vouch for whether or not this will land you an interview, HackerRank was very useful in preparing for interviews.<p>Also, the team is great - I signed up a long time ago and had some performance feedback for Vivek. They promptly implemented the change within a day. I haven't used it recently, but at the very least you'll get something out of it if you need practice.