You can also try company bots on CodeFights : https://codefights.com/bots if you win and apply your information gets submitted to respective companies directly.
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CodeFights - https://codefights.com - is hiring full-time Front-End/Back-End/Full-Stack and Content Engineers in San Francisco, CA (remote is OK).
What can beat the joy of building a product that you and thousands of other engineers all around the world use and love every day? Doing it alongside an awesome team! So come join us and let's have fun.
Our stack is as cutting edge as it gets (JavaScript/Meteor.js/Node.js/MongoDB) and we are strong believers in continuous learning so even if you haven't had any experience with these but are smart and eager to learn, we wanna talk to you!
thanks for understanding woutervdb and for the upvote, would be awesome if you can give it a try now (the HN traffic has calmed down :) ) and let us know what you think -- email info @ codefights.com
there is actually a workaround right now (not a great one but still). If you go to Forum from the top nav bar then click tasks you can see all of the tasks that you ever got during your codefights.
Yeap, great point. We currently sync the time with the server regularly to avoid cheating and given that the servers are under HN rush right now the delay is probably way more significant than it usually is. However, we are trying to figure out a better way to do this to make sure it doesn't start counting before the task loads.
Hehe, never thought of it as an argument resolver but that's a cool idea. One other idea that I have already tried quite successfully was to use this as a technical phone screen tool where you codefight the candidate or ask them to do a few solo modes to see how far they get :)
Hi guys, co-founder of codefights here, the site is still in beta and someone posting it to HN caught us totally off guard. Migrating the servers now to something that can handle this traffic. Appreciate the patience :)
EDIT: OK Servers migrated but it still can't come close to handling HN rush levels. While that's passing I can explain the main concept here.
A task on codefights is a function written in javascript that has 1 bug on 1 line of it and your goal is to find and fix it as soon as you can. There is a Solo mode and a VS Friend mode. In the Solo mode you start with easy tasks and need to find the bug in under a minute, if you do, you go to the next rounds where the tasks progressively get harder.
In the VS Friend mode, you codefight someone else where you guys have 5 rounds facing the same task in each round and each correct solution is 100 points, pass is 0 points and an incorrect answer is -25. At the end of 5 rounds whoever gets more points wins.
Please let me know if anyone has any questions or feedback. Hope you guys will get to try it for real soon :).