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pchater
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Applied for a £22k Web Developer Job Php laravel in particular and get tasked with this.

Well that isn't hard.

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  • 1
    And how much time are you supposed to spend on this?
  • 6
    Plenty of e-commerce solutions built on laravel, that offer that out of the box lol..
    Wonder what they would reply if simply linked a GitHub repo... :D
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    @classClass couple of days. I'll have it done in the morning lol. Work all night oh yeah!
  • 4
    Add tests, they are very important and it doesn't take too much time to write them!
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    @lotd true this is just a test of coding ability though. :)
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    @simeg oh definitely I don't want my code to break all TDD will be done :)
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    @simeg already Clocking up that time :)
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    @pchater nice!! Hope you get the job, please report back (and please mention my username otherwise I probably wont see it). Rock on! 🤘🏻👍🏻
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    Is this for an interview? I would reply "I don't work for free!"
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    @pchater vim todo list I guess.
    Lol totally thought it was the output of a equo command on sabayon, at first glance :D
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    @lotd Nope, you are close. More like Evil mode ;] simply for logging time :). VIM for actual code but I'm switching to Atom now.
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    @chrisrhymes I'm not mean and it gets my foot in the door for professional work :)
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    @pchater is this some software or just a styled text in the editor?
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    O_o. I know this test. I might see you soon in our office.

    Edit: nvm not flow. But the test is exactly the same..
  • 2
    @pchater sometimes you have to prove yourself to get a job, I just hope they are not taking you for a ride.

    Good luck and let us know how you get on!
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    @chrisrhymes nah didn't sound like they were taking me for a ride. I've been doing Dev for years just never done it commercially. :)
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    @DarkMukke Heyy! I didn't even mention Flow. Damn it. :p I take you are from the North East :) update: but it does mention it in that file I should have omitted.
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    @pchater
    Is that some program for sorting todos?Looks really good for organizing your work!
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    @Deniii Just Emacs with Evil and Orgmode :)
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    @pchater awesome! And there's a Vim plugin - boom installed.
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    That's frankly a stupid test imo.

    Granted, it's not hard, just time consuming.

    You cannot test the entire breath of someone's knowledge in a skills type test, although this bordered of a full blown job.

    I written commerce systems from scratch in the past. Unless I'm being paid a lot money, never ever again - even with a good framework.
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    @rallport well all my efforts didn't go a miss, I done a sterling job and went above and beyond for the company which made them feel valued and landed me the position :)
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    @pchater it's still stupid example for a skills test imo :)
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    @rallport ^_^
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    @rallport tbf I'm no longer there even though I had a month trial, just simply did not work out. That decision was made out today.

    Laravel applied, no laravel code or projects and slapped into Wordpress theme building & working with their opencart bastardisation of an ecommerce system. = waste of my time and efforts.
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    @pchater I'm sorry to hear. Come find me on devrant community on slack.
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    @DarkMukke not OP but... WE HAVE A SLACK COMMUNITY?
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    @Deniii yes devrantcommunity dot slack dot com
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    @DarkMukke ah nice! Need an invite to the team though
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