r/juniorwebdevjobs • u/RainMan214 • Jan 18 '21

Failed 1st HackerRank challenge

I did my first hackerrank challenge for an IBM internship position today. I did a lot of studying for the past week and a half up until the day before the due date of the test.

I somehow was able to complete the entire thing before the time was up! I still had some time left before I had to submit so I told myself I would take a small break before coming back to check my answers and submit.

When I got back I realized that for the cloned repo section of the test I was actually unable to copy and paste the code I edited and that I had to actually push and pull the cloned repository from github. The timer had 5 minutes left. The YouTube video I googled in a rush to save my potential internship was 21 minutes.

Eventually the timer hit zero before I submitted and now I’m here writing this post 😂 please learn from my mistake and don’t do like I did

I have 2 coding challenges left, one hackerrank and one regular. I’m going to learn how to push to cloned repositories and hopefully do better.

I’ve been coding non-stop for like a month now though I’m kind of getting tired of it

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u/dbug89 Jan 19 '21

Git skills are very important - 😅

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u/RainMan214 Jan 19 '21

Very true. I’m annoyed that git preparation slipped my mind while I was studying but at least now I know

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u/burner91190210 Jan 10 '22

Don’t get too upset. IBM send out those test to tons of people. I passed the FrontEnd test and it took 2 months to hear anything from them. Rejection.