| This. A company, that advertised here on the last "Who's Hiring" sent me a code project. Wasn't quite enough to be 'you're doing a sprint item for us', but merited decent effort: - write a log monitoring console program that consumes an actively written to file - parse out specific parts of the log and aggregate them every 15s, display summary data - generate 'alert' notification when log messages/second (over the last two minutes rolling average) exceeds a threshold - remove notification when fall back under this limit - continue to generate stats while doing so - develop some unit tests to demonstrate alert logic This is, at least to me, _several_ hours of decent work. Certainly was nearly 500 lines of code. Submitted. "Thanks for this. We'll review." Last I ever heard. Thanks. |
By all means, please do "out" this company. Preferably as a response their next "Who's Hiring?" posting.
You'll be doing not only your fellow developers a huge favor, but the guilty party as well. Being as they need to get their heads around the fact that it's not in their interest to keep pulling off bad behavior like this -- and if they need a good dose of public shaming for the message to sink in, then so be it.