Hi Douglas,
Thanks for taking the time to send such a detailed response i'll certainly take that all on board for the future.
Is your assignment for a web developer or a software engineer? I recently had a test for a software engineer (they definitely seem to be overlapping these days) and being self-taught web developer I barely had any clue where to start which was demoralising as I've been spending a lot of time recently trying to get better at algorithms. Despite my efforts I'm still finding things that completely baffle me.
That said I'm willing to take a look if that's ok, I'm stubborn enough not to back away from a challenge no matter how many time I get knocked down lol
Hey, Sorry for being slow to get back to you. Been a busy few days.
How are you defining the two? In my mind, a web developer is just a more nuanced type of Software Engineer, focussing on UI/UX and backends. There's certainly a big crossover though.
Algorithms are a funny one - 99% of the time you don't need them, yet people insist on assessing with them.
Hi,
No problem at all, completely understand with the run up to Christmas etc.
I'm at the interviewing stage with companies and my experience so far is that, when going for a web developer role you get some kind of assignment where you are asked to build a basic front-end or add some functionality to an existing front-end. When going for a software engineering role you get asked design patterns, more complicated algorithms and O notation etc (I had a couple leaning towards software engineering recently and I was thinking, what the heck, I haven't covered that yet do I need to??) so it can get a little confusing and demoralising looking at the mountain of things I don't know.
I would like to take a look at your assignment if that's ok, it's all practice and helps me to understand where my gaps are so I can be better prepared next time?
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Hi Douglas,
Thanks for taking the time to send such a detailed response i'll certainly take that all on board for the future.
Is your assignment for a web developer or a software engineer? I recently had a test for a software engineer (they definitely seem to be overlapping these days) and being self-taught web developer I barely had any clue where to start which was demoralising as I've been spending a lot of time recently trying to get better at algorithms. Despite my efforts I'm still finding things that completely baffle me.
That said I'm willing to take a look if that's ok, I'm stubborn enough not to back away from a challenge no matter how many time I get knocked down lol
Hey, Sorry for being slow to get back to you. Been a busy few days.
How are you defining the two? In my mind, a web developer is just a more nuanced type of Software Engineer, focussing on UI/UX and backends. There's certainly a big crossover though.
Algorithms are a funny one - 99% of the time you don't need them, yet people insist on assessing with them.
Hi,
No problem at all, completely understand with the run up to Christmas etc.
I'm at the interviewing stage with companies and my experience so far is that, when going for a web developer role you get some kind of assignment where you are asked to build a basic front-end or add some functionality to an existing front-end. When going for a software engineering role you get asked design patterns, more complicated algorithms and O notation etc (I had a couple leaning towards software engineering recently and I was thinking, what the heck, I haven't covered that yet do I need to??) so it can get a little confusing and demoralising looking at the mountain of things I don't know.
I would like to take a look at your assignment if that's ok, it's all practice and helps me to understand where my gaps are so I can be better prepared next time?