COMMENTS

  1. The take home assignment I did was "Too Good"

    Out of 27+ interviews I've answered in the last six months, I had 5 take home assignments. They are a disaster. Some companies think that take home assignment gives them a gauge of the employee. But those can be faked. I had one where one company gave me two scenarios and one excel based problem to resolve. They gave me 48 hours.

  2. What the Hiring Manager Wants to See in Your Take-Home ...

    In fact, the take-home assignment should actually be a huge boost to your confidence. When you're asked to complete one, it's a clear indication that the hiring manager's excited to see how you'd tackle a problem similar to one the organization's been dealing with. In other words, the company's struggled with the issue in the past ...

  3. Passing the Dreaded Data Science Take-Home Assignment

    If there is an alternative to doing the take-home assignment if given the chance. That you'll get feedback for your work instead of a standardized rejection email. You understand the rubric and extent to which you will be graded on. First things first, double-check if the company will offer you a technical screen instead of a take-home ...

  4. How to Avoid Common Pitfalls and Ace Your Take Home Assignment

    Documentation is an important part of any software project and you need to be able to demonstrate that in your take home assignment. Make sure to have a detailed readme including your architectural and design decisions, features of the application, testing, how to run the app locally, and a list of the technologies used.

  5. How fair is the take-home assignment?

    The fundamental problem with a take-home assignment is a candidate has to put in time the employer doesn't. A candidate may spend hours on a take-home, and the employer rejects them after only a ...

  6. Take-homes

    A take-home assignment (take-home or takehome) is a coding task given to technical candidates to complete on their own time. Candidates are typically given a day to several days to complete a take-home. controversy Take-homes are controversial. While there are many pros for the companies assigning them, they are less valuable in terms of the candidate experience.

  7. 5 Examples of Take-Home Tasks for Different Roles

    5 thorough examples of great take-home assignments. Now that you better understand the how, the when, and the why of take-home assignments, we'll show you five examples. The example take-home assignments will cover tasks for: Developer - fixing a broken site. Product manager - redesigning a feature.

  8. Why Take Home Assignment Interviews are a Big Mistake

    Hiring Managers Should Avoid the Take-Home Assignment. Making the common interview mistake of requiring a take-home assignment most often results in the assignment not getting completed and the candidate pursuing a different employment opportunity that doesn't require an additional assignment. It's understandable that a hiring manager would ...

  9. 12 Strategies to Crush Your Data Take-Home Interview

    Interview Meme, Public Domain T here's nothing more frustrating for someone trying to secure a job in data science or analytics than spending 10 hours agonizing over a take-home assignment — conducting exhaustive analysis, creating interpretable visualizations, training a model, etc. — only to receive a canned rejection email and run into a brick wall when you ask for feedback on your work.

  10. I'm struggling to deal with some upsetting homework assignments

    I'm struggling to deal with some upsetting homework assignments. My psychology 101 class has been pretty rough for me lately. A few weeks ago I had to write a short discussion post detailing my experiences with K-12, like what subjects my schools prioritized and how much creativity was used in class, and those questions were hard to answer for ...

  11. How to Create a Take-Home Coding Challenge Developers Love

    The reason hiring teams need a coding skill test is to assess developers' skills and make the best hire for your team. It's hard and expensive to hire developers. The wrong hire could potentially cost you 30% of that person's first-year salary. CareerBuilder reports that companies lose $14,900 on every bad hire.

  12. How To Transform a Take-Home Assignment Into a Data Science Job

    1.1 How are take-home assignments structured? Take-home assignments are composed of two elements. A dataset and an overview of the assignment. The dataset will usually be a fictional version of the company's data. It is provided in a .csv format, with a description of all columns.

  13. Six Steps to Pass the Data Science Take Home Challenge

    So if you must, have to, and there's no other choice, to do a take-home assignment. Here are a few steps to take to ensure a smoother process. Understand expectations. State assumptions everywhere. Do the modeling basics. Make the take-home challenge readable. Write Tests and Comments.

  14. Is a take-home assignment after an interview still from this time?

    The take-home assessment interview-also called the working interview-has several pros and cons. Different from an interview skills test, the take-home assignment may include payment.This article will tell you what to expect and help you prepare if you come up against this type of interview. The interview can be an extremely nerve-racking ...

  15. Is it normal to take home $65,000 on a $110,000 salary?

    Probably takes the standard deduction of $13,850 for 2023, and would still get a bit of student loan interest deduction at that income level, so about $81,000 taxable after deductions. 22% on the amount over $44,275: $7,980.50. 12% on the amount between $11,000 and $44,725: $4,047. 10% on the first $11,000: $1,100.

  16. Acing your take-home interview challenge

    Acing your take-home technical interview challenge. You've applied for multiple data analyst roles where you're growing impatient from hearing back when suddenly; "You've got mail.". It's from one of the companies you've applied for. "Thank you for applying. We've included a Technical Aptitude Test to check your proficiencies ...

  17. Take Home Pay as Attorney I? : r/CAStateWorkers

    The answer will vary a bit depending on if you are in an excluded position. Generally you can expect to take home about 60-65% of your gross. urz90. • 2 hr. ago. With deductions and health care, etc. you may end up with 60% of your gross pay. Maybe a little more or less, it all depends on your deductions. But 60% is a good round number. gbdavidx.

  18. Final Four: Why UConn will beat Iowa

    Edwards' mobility helps her draw fouls, and that will be crucial given how important Hannah Stuelke is to Iowa, and the Hawkeyes' lack of depth in the post. But the biggest reason that UConn ...

  19. General Question: Microsoft 365 admin console tab label

    My admin tab label in any browser I choose, across several networks, displays as "Početak - Microsoft 365 admin center" via login through https://portal.microsoft.com . I am not Serbian, my company has no affiliations with Serbia, and our regional settings are not Serbian. Yet, that "Početak" is the word for "beginning" in Serbian.

  20. Gabbie Marshall returns home to compete in Final Four, will take on

    CLEVELAND — Gabbie Marshall will end her basketball career in the same place she started it. Marshall, out of Cincinnati, Ohio, will start her 136th career game for the Hawkeyes on Friday when they face UConn in the Final Four at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. The fifth-year guard attended Mount Notre Dame High School, where she was...

  21. Microsoft Copilot for Security is now generally available

    As announced at Microsoft Secure last month, Copilot for Security is now available for purchase as of April 1, 2024. Customers can get started by provisioning capacity to run all Copilot workloads, both for standalone and for those embedded in our security products beginning with Microsoft Defender XDR. With a flexible, consumption-based ...