I received a coding assessment that I have to do with the camera turned on
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Each time I receive one of these tests I say to myself: let me check and if it's a simple task I can give it a try. A few days back I received a hacker rank assessment link containing 8 coding questio
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Each time I receive one of these tests I say to myself: let me check and if it's a simple task I can give it a try. A few days back I received a hacker rank assessment link containing 8 coding questions to be completed in 1:30 hours. So, I clicked the link to check what it's about. By reading the instructions I found out that the copy and paste are disabled. Despite this being already enough to skip the test, not because I can't work without an editor, of course I can but it's inconvenient and tedious enough to make anyone waste time on manual syntax checking and writing everything fully due to the absence of completion. I then came across an instruction that says: the webcam is required for this test and you can't start the test unless you start your webcam. And to make it even worse, it stated that you have to be looking at the screen all the time and if you look elsewhere, it's going to be held against you in the assessment. Well, this is a whole new level of idiocy, it's the first time I encounter something this stupid with any coding assessment that I ever received. What the fuck are they assessing by looking at a video of my face? Even if this is meant to verify that I'm the one who actually solved their stupid problems, isn't this what interviews are for? So I started my webcam and switched off the light to see what will happen, and as i expected, there's an event that keeps being triggered every few minutes stating that what the camera views is not what the morons in the company are expecting. I had to disable the javascript entirely to prevent the events from being triggered as a result to the violations I'm intending to commit (copying, the camera, opening other windows to lookup and try stuff, ...). I had to copy the input values from the html to be able to use them in the editor and try things out. I solved the first question but never submitted it, I was just making a point to myself and I sent them an email shortly after informing them that I reject them. The key takeaway from this experience is to never open another assessment link, you want to assess me, have a human being ask me questions, otherwise it's a strict NO, I don't care even if it's Google.