[rglover]

Curious, are there any exceptions to your coding test (I applied back in 2021 or so, not sure if this is still a requirement)?

The test didn't like my solutions/speed (which meant I couldn't move forward), however, I'd say I'm more than qualified to be a Toptal dev (see projects in my HN profile [1]).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/rglover

[dep_b]

I only passed the coding test because they asked me exactly the same question the second time. I was definitely one of their top developers there, got great reviews and got approached directly for some great projects so it was pretty obvious I was an above average performer there.

Coding tests suck for people from countries that have a more practical mindset at universities. I remember needed algorithms exactly once where I had to apply algorithms to cluster 100,000's of map pointers and every built-in solution was completely slow.

Got it to an agreeable performance, which was cool. However using the Geo capabilities of the database directly was much faster, and could be cached for all users, so I just used that instead in the end.