first assessment was tonight. they claim it was harder than what the final assessment will be. We shall see.
I haven't talked to anyone else, really, so I have no idea how others did. For the sake of anonymity, I won't say exactly how I did, but without knowing their grading rubric I can safely say I passed, unless their rubric is passing == failing, which would be an odd rubric.
They emailed out the assessment, and if anyone is interested in seeing it feel free to PM me. I think that should likely be okay. (Please let me know if it's not or delete this portion of this post)
(Actually, I think this is probably a bridge too far, see next paragraph and
please do not PM me asking for it, I won't send it. Leaving this up for context, unless it gets deleted.)
Would be good to understand the approximate skill level they're eventually expecting. (Or check out their github page's
problem sets / solutions sections) I don't
think I signed any NDA that says I can't link to their public github (which wouldn't make any sense, open-source and all), but I also don't remember what I
did sign. So, y'know, don't sue me anyone.
I think set 7 and pre-assessment are the best representatives of the actual assessment. The rest should be pretty trivial if you're considering applying and want a good shot of entrance. A good portion of sets 1-3 or 4 can be solved in a couple LoC iirc, 5 gets tricky, pre-assessment took some doing. Haven't really eye-balled 7, but the brief look I gave it made me think it was on par with the pre-assessment.
Still don't feel like I've learned much exactly. It's been good to code every day, and I think that's one of the biggest benefits to a depressive like me. Too easy to get stuck in your own head and consider doing any actual work a trivial thing to be avoided. Still, the resources they have aren't really any different than what's on, say, Odin/Codecademy/various learning platforms or coding challenge sites.
If I was offered a place in the program tomorrow, I honestly don't know if I'd accept. Maybe I'm being crazy and this is an opportunity i'd be nuts to pass up. If so, someone give me a nice, firm slap please.