cjies / hiring-take-home

This is the repository for candidates interested in working for Web3 Platforms Inc.

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Hiring @ Web3 Platforms Inc.

Hello! If you are reading this then we're likely in the process exploring an engineering role with us! If so, congratulations 🎉 !

In order to move forward, we'd like to know a little about how you work. To that end, this repository contains a set of short, time-boxed (approximately 1-3 hours max) coding assessments that you can use demonstrate your skills and abilities.

Please don't spend more than a few hours on this, we value your time and appreciate you considering taking a role with us.

The goal of this take home test is to give you an asynchronous medium for demonstrating how you would break down a set of user stories and requirements into something akin to a rapid POC/spike. There is no grading or scoring, nor is it pass-fail, rather this is meant to serve a sample of your thought processes as an engineer. We know that 3 hours is not a lot of time and you will both not be able to complete everything you'd like, and will feel pressure to do more. Please truly hold yourself to 3 hours max and make sure to create a ROADMAP.md file as outlined in the instructions below.

First, a few words about asynchronous/take-home exercise

The primary reasons we ask candidates of all levels to complete this exercise is as follows.

• 🌎 ~ We're a hybrid-remote team spread across multiple time zones and we hire candidates from across time and space. Async exercises allow you to show off your skills at a time/place that works for you.

• ⏳ ~ Take-home exercises allow you to work at your own pace. We intentionally structure these to take around 1-3ish hours of time and ask that you limit your investment to no more than the suggested time, however you are free to break this into as many sessions as you wish.

• 🛠 ~ It matches the nature of our work. Most of being an engineer on a distributed team is self-directed exploration of a problem, followed by period(s) of cyclic work/edit/review, followed by submittal for review and approval by your peers. Async exercises allow you to do the same.

• 🧰 ~ It allows you to use the tools, languages, and frameworks where you are the most productive.

General Instructions

1. Choose ONE exercise directory that matches your primary domain. This is the area in which you feel the most comfortable and have the highest degree of mastery

   • frontend
   • backend

2. Read the instructions.md file in the matching directory. Be sure to read the instructions carefully and ask any clarifying questions by emailing [e-mail]

3. Create a new private repository for your exercise and add our team as private collaborators (We do this to preserve your anonymity so it's not obvious you are looking for a new role). You can add our main GH account as a private collaborator: https://github.com/Web3Platforms

4. Complete as much of the exercise as you can in 3 hours or less. Unless otherwise specified in the instructions.md document, you can use any language, framework, or toolchain you wish.

5. Be sure to include the following in your submission

   • a README.md with the following information
     • A few screenshots of the finished product. Show off that work! 📸
     • The exercise you choose and why
     • A short explanation of what you built
     • How to test/demo/run (if applicable)
       • NOTE: a 'working' exercise is awesome, however it is NOT a hard requirement. We mean it!
     • Any feedback/notes (i.e. if something was hard, confusing, frustrating, etc)
     • Anything else you'd lke us to know about your submission
   • a ROADMAP.md with what you would add/change if you had more time. Dream big.
   • a super-simple test suite if applicable (even one test is a bonus)
   • Some form of lightweight technical documentation (code comments are fine)

6. When complete email a link to the repository and any special instructions to your recruiter.

7. Sit back and relax. We'll review your submission and get back to you shortly 😃