Sainsbury’s interview question

The technical task!

Interview Answer

Anonymous

2 Jun 2016

This is where things went south. They give you a task which is a pretty decent chunk of work but it says 'shouldn't spend more than two hours'. But here's the catch, they expect you to build something that will take upwards of 20 hours of effort. I will never expect a Senior Developer to come up with the iteration they expected. What was even more sad that their own requirements were wrong and the snippet they provided had a bug in it. Hardly got any feedback and of what was provided it went against their own requirements. I thanked the recruitment agent and requested no further communication from them.