I applied at Treehouse learning and they have a take on 'anonymous' hiring. It's 'anonymous' in that they don't see the resume you submit, or so they claim, until after reviewing short essay answers to some questions.
No knowledge of tools used, name, DOB, companies you have worked at previously, is where Treehouse starts in assessing your application materials.
These were silly simple questions, like assign an empty array to a variable in Python, then append N items to it, and print it on the screen. No FizzBuzz at this stage anyway.
More like "describe how you would handle situation X" or "walk through how you'd solve this real problem we recently saw, given this information".
My intuition suggests they are assessing communication skill first. stuff like tone and clarity in writing. I can't say if that's accurate or they were looking for a "right answer" type response, however.
FWIW, it was actually the easiest application process I've been through. Something about the anonymous part made me feel more relaxed. Like I'll be judged on my own words, not a bullet list of skills. That said, didn't hear from them. :-/
I've tried to get into Rust on/off and each time I'm left feeling like I needed a semester of instruction just to write a trivial program. Each attempt to go back to it, I would immediately hit a wall.
Go, on the other hand, felt quick to pick up. While I don't use it a lot, it's focus on a few composition patterns, and really sticking by that, made it easier for me to learn and come back to when I go back to my Python-centric existence.
Rust on the other hand, I haven't thought about nor touched, outside seeing an HN headline.
No knowledge of tools used, name, DOB, companies you have worked at previously, is where Treehouse starts in assessing your application materials.
These were silly simple questions, like assign an empty array to a variable in Python, then append N items to it, and print it on the screen. No FizzBuzz at this stage anyway.
More like "describe how you would handle situation X" or "walk through how you'd solve this real problem we recently saw, given this information".
My intuition suggests they are assessing communication skill first. stuff like tone and clarity in writing. I can't say if that's accurate or they were looking for a "right answer" type response, however.
FWIW, it was actually the easiest application process I've been through. Something about the anonymous part made me feel more relaxed. Like I'll be judged on my own words, not a bullet list of skills. That said, didn't hear from them. :-/