First Code Interview and Catching Up

So first off, apologies for not blogging at all for the last month or so. You definitely have missed out on a lot, so I’ll try to catch you up in a few posts

Just got done with my first coding interview for a local company here in Portland. For the sake of professionalism, I won’t be publishing their name. They are a medium - sized company that provides a regulatory service for larger companies.

Anyway, here’s how the interview has gone so far:

• First coding test was an ruby “archeology” problem. This meant that they gave me a ruby function that was syntactically ugly (but still functional) and I had describe what each part of it did. Then, I would have to write a cleaner, more elegant version of the code.
• After I completed that, I finally got to meet with one of the coders. He asked me a question about optimization (which I had to consult Google for!) and made me explain which equation was the most efficient and how I knew that it was!
• The latest portion that I did, was a live coding exercise that was pretty much for the purpose of finding out how I process logic. It wasn’t too difficult as I’d already done a similar project to it in Epicodus, but the time constraints they place on you are pretty intense!

For now, it’s just a waiting game to see if they liked me enough to go further into the interview! Wish me luck!