Coderbyte Reviews 

Technical Assessment Timer Clarity

The Candidate Guide and introductory pages for an assessment are not clear about when the timer starts. There are several pages that should be read carefully without pressure. Big, bold "Timer not started yet" marquees should be present on those pages.

Copy and paste penalties are also unclear. Is copying within the code already typed allowed? How about from the instructions to the code? Can written code be copied from the code window and pasted to an external source?

Finally, haven't work with many of the languages, but challenges start with the statement "output logs will appear here" Yet, there is no way to log in C# without Console.WriteLine which must be removed before submitting. There should be a way to include logging that can remain in the final solution (without being commented either).

I love it, it's so fun and usefull for practicing

Use this and you will improve and gain confidence. This applies even if you are already a programmer. The training videos are really high quality.

Excellent collections of programming challenges, with a wide selection of solutions. Moreover, interview questions from Google,etc are available.

Situations: I applied for a reactjs, php, mysql, wp freelance projects but I found myself seating for a 4 hours medium to hard 8 questions of which not even 1 was on what I am doing.

When you give someone an assessment there should be a reason:

1. If a candidate has applied for a job say php or mysql then assess that individual on php or mysql.
2. If everything is biased towards computer science algorithms and data structures and problem solving and maths then tell candidates before hand that they are required to know these and they need to prepare for them before they take an assessment. We are working on web development or development and believe me we do not reinvent algorithms unless there is a good reason. We have plenty plus tried and tested algorithms and we always use less than 10% of what is available. For example, developers use CMS, templets, boiler plates, tried and tested solutions modules and to a lesser extent they re do underlying core modules which require new designs or performance tunning.

3. Are you guys aware that universities have IT and CS as seperate modules and why?

I do not say tha CS stuff is useless and irrelevant but my point has always been and is test correctly and communicate correctly and do not alienate candidates as a way to force them to subscribe to your premium packages.

If you dispute what I am saying call and talk to me. The last time I was spending lots of hours on algorithm, data structures and general problem solving was when I was on my 3rd year university. But the last years and today I am multiple projects for different companies and clients and when I need to freelance for you then why am I subjected to the staff I have forgoten and I am not working on currently.

I really appreciated Coderbyte Premium's large variety of "challenges", the review videos, and the ability to see other users' solutions. They all helped me refresh my memory of algorithms, and the experience was addictively enjoyable.

I encourage users to practice using the web browser for all editing and testing. My pre-assessment practice, to use a laptop editor and then copy/paste the code into the browser, resulted in a surprising and disturbing "do not copy/paste" warning during the assessment test. Being assigned two "matrix"-oriented challenges during the assessment made it especially tempting to copy/paste! Also, the web app did not capture the "command-S" keystrokes, which I instinctively entered while updating my solution.

Very nice product!

I am truly amazed by how useful Coderbyte is. Especially compared with other websites, where one is not able to compare ones code or has not the opportunity to learn coding in such a playful and fun way.

Overall, good product. A few things can improve:
1) More coding tutorials including videos or white papers, particular aiming to the "hard" problems. This can really help to upgrade job seeker's coding skill.
2) Many difficult problems are solved within 10 minutes by more than 30% participants based on statistics. Is this true? Or simply because the challenges are re-done?
3) Coding tests are not complete. You can get a full score in quite some challenges using code with flaw.

I think the videos by Alvin are very good. Good coverage of topics, clear, concise.

I am excited I came across new algorithms,however the time was really short

Was getting copy paste pop up when I do it from my eclipse IDE.

1) Running test cases and submitting takes a lot of time, and It's failing with message (Error occurred during initialization of VM) a lot also It would mark the test case as failed but when I try it in the box after multiple failinf to initialize VM errors It succeeds.
I'm coding using Kotlin

2) Most of the problems doesn't have answers clarifications, It doesn't have to be a video.

I was accepted in the interview and this site helped a lot and it is really great.

I was tested for programming, dev-ops and database skills. I can tell that Coderbyte is good place to examine software engineer universal skills and productivity independently from specific programming language or system.

I love it, it's so fun and usefull for practicing

I discovered coderbyte when I was looking for practice problems for my upcoming coding interview. I'm a front-end Angular developer and I get questions all the time like the ones on Coderbyte. I love Coderbyte because it had one of the most simple and intuitive UX that I've tried. I loved the instant feedback, being able to see my ranking, as well as other users' solutions. When I landed my job, it was owed in no small part to all the practice problems I had solved on the site. I would definitely recommend Coderbyte to any developer who is seeking a job or just wants to keep their skills sharp.