My suspicion is that those who do well on HackerRank have invested a lot of time to be familiar with HackerRank.
Is that a valuable and meaningful longterm strategy and worth the investment for a developer?
If you were given an hour of paid time and asked to choose between:
1. learning something valuable and meaningful that would continue to pay dividends for the rest of your life, or
2. learning to use a website that you will probably use a dozen times or less your entire career
... which choice would you, personally, make?
The actual IDE I use at work is nothing like the HackerRank IDE. I have built up muscle memory that just does not work on the HackerRank IDE.
Have you tried to run a Javascript program within HackerRank? Try out how the Map implementation works and how it's different from the Map implementation available when you use Babel.
Timed tests on HackerRank select for candidates who have trained on HackerRank problems inside the HackerRank IDE.
If that's your perfect candidate don't come complaining that your employees solve HackerRank problems all day at work.
I have been doing software for a while and there has been no realistic situation when a business needed a problem solved from scratch without an collaboration, discussion or feedback within an hour.
I have been in situations where companies needed a solution within an hour and it almost exclusively involved extreme team work and cooperation.
Exactly... but even then, how do you run the test cases?
Download them and run them from PyCharm?
I just don't like HackerRank.
Let me rephrase that.
As I grow in my role, I see writing the type of code that can be tested on HackerRank less and less, so investing time in learning how HackerRank works is absolutely not on my radar.
... and getting a HackerRank solution in within that ticking timer absolutely requires me to be comfortable with the HackerRank UI.
Please dont. It's a terrible IDE.
My suspicion is that those who do well on HackerRank have invested a lot of time to be familiar with HackerRank.
Is that a valuable and meaningful longterm strategy and worth the investment for a developer?
If you were given an hour of paid time and asked to choose between:
1. learning something valuable and meaningful that would continue to pay dividends for the rest of your life, or
2. learning to use a website that you will probably use a dozen times or less your entire career
... which choice would you, personally, make?
The actual IDE I use at work is nothing like the HackerRank IDE. I have built up muscle memory that just does not work on the HackerRank IDE.
Have you tried to run a Javascript program within HackerRank? Try out how the Map implementation works and how it's different from the Map implementation available when you use Babel.
Timed tests on HackerRank select for candidates who have trained on HackerRank problems inside the HackerRank IDE.
If that's your perfect candidate don't come complaining that your employees solve HackerRank problems all day at work.
I have been doing software for a while and there has been no realistic situation when a business needed a problem solved from scratch without an collaboration, discussion or feedback within an hour.
I have been in situations where companies needed a solution within an hour and it almost exclusively involved extreme team work and cooperation.