Totally agree. I have a CS (actually msc) background and after 14 years working for an international company I wanted to move along and find a new job (yes, I am not the typical jobhopper). To my greatest surprise most of the companies here asked for HackerRank tests. I started working on hacker rank exercises and eventually passed them. However, it was like practicing for an exam, and totally removed from real-life problems. Now, either every company needs to solve complex algorithmic problems on a daily basics (which I am pretty sure they don't) or this is some kind of quick test just because it seems easy for the recruiters. The code I had to write in hacker rank was ugly and would never pass any of my own code review for sure.
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Totally agree. I have a CS (actually msc) background and after 14 years working for an international company I wanted to move along and find a new job (yes, I am not the typical jobhopper). To my greatest surprise most of the companies here asked for HackerRank tests. I started working on hacker rank exercises and eventually passed them. However, it was like practicing for an exam, and totally removed from real-life problems. Now, either every company needs to solve complex algorithmic problems on a daily basics (which I am pretty sure they don't) or this is some kind of quick test just because it seems easy for the recruiters. The code I had to write in hacker rank was ugly and would never pass any of my own code review for sure.