Experience with "Woven Teams"
I've taken 3 interview test with woventeams. The first time was back in Nov 2020, then another this past summer, and then I just finished another one last night. Ironically, the one I just took was nearly identical to the one I took last Nov 2020. I had high hopes for this "outsourced interviewing platform" but I'm starting to really feel disappointed with it. Even worse, it seems to be extremely expensive on the employer's end as well. Does anyone actually have any success stories using it?
I'm pretty peeved at the test I just finished. It was for a back end django position, but the first question was about listing reasons a react component might not be working correctly, followed by writing a hypothetical email to a coworker to investigate the issue using two of your aforementioned reasons. Looks like I got knocked points because I should have formatted my "email" better by using bullet points or different formatting. Why in the world would I use bullet points when I've only got two reasons to discuss??? And then knocked more points because I should have created links to "hypothetical" documentation. Aggravating because, again, I've already taken a similar test and I basically knew the results they were grading on but I still couldn't meet the requirements. And then onto the short script/coding part. It was identical to last time, so thought I could ace it this time around, but I miscalculated one of my main variables. I didn't notice it because 2 of the 3 tests were passing (not even sure how in hindsight) so that lead me not to suspect my main variable being wrong, not to mentioned the major issue with web IDE environments is the nearly impossible task of trying to actually print out the value of a variable (does it go into the "program output pane" or into your browser's web console?? Oh looks like neither!).
Nonetheless, taking a step back, the task was actually to brainstorm issues why a react component wasn't working, email a jr. dev with instructions on how to fix the issue, and then write a script to create an invoice using a function that is passed two data structures. All that in 1 hour and 45 minutes. Heck, in my freelance days, I would have billed 4 hours just for the invoice part. I think if I'm sent another woventeams test/link, that I'm just going to decline.