It&#x27;s that time again and i&#x27;m applying for jobs.<p>First perspective job has a coding exam, foobar! I never seem to do well in these, just ties my brain up in knots.<p>How do you guys handle programming tasks for interviews, where they should only take a predetermined amount of time?<p>I&#x27;m half way through my time on this task already and I haven&#x27;t even touched the unit tests.<p>It seems that anytime I get one of these tests, I spend far too long digesting the problem, far too long planning, far too long coding up first the first half.<p>That brings me to about half way through my allotted time and then I start to panic.<p>I feel useless. I mean don&#x27;t tell me a future job is dependant on the interviewer liking my code or that there is a clock running. I&#x27;ve been able to break out more complicated tasks in less time, it&#x27;s just when there&#x27;s this whole judgement thing going on I get fired. Mainly because there is a million ways to do something..<p>Funny thing is, that any time I go into a new job, it was without prior coding and I exceed their expectations :&#x2F;
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