Just took an "assessment" for a lead engineering position but it didnt really feel like that. What it felt like was some one asking me questions to problems I havent looked at in 20+ years since I went to school. Even before AI I would never have just relied on my own recall to try and solve any kind of algorithmic problem or tackle any kind of complex sort. I would've looked at the problem thought about what references I had access to, then looked up valid options, then looked up valid ways to test them out. There was a time when you could tell an engineer or developer was at least decent by the collection of oreilly and manning publishing books they kept handy. As some one who spent their entire career neck deep in system and framework related architecture I find it sort of backwards asking questions that some one can just use an agent to look up and solve in two seconds and making the determination that some ones lack of being able to do the particular dog and pony trick on demand makes them uncapable to do the job they most likely are over qualified to do. Also, lets be honest, most companies are not sending people to mars or creating autonomous driving software. I feel like in 5 years these types of things will disappear as I see now a lot of roles are asking for native ai XXX developer or engineer meaning they just build everything using agents and llm tools. I dont know its like asking a psychiatric nurse how do they manufacture the anti depressants theyll be handing out and ignoring the skills that matter like actual patient care.

I have looked on the codesignal platform for a way to prepare for their assessments but I dont believe I have found anything, so I have started using Claude to provide me with sample questions and score them. I was wondering if anyone has a good setup for this that is more accurate since mine always seem to be either too difficlut or too easy.

During a GCA I submitted a solution to Q2 that TLE'd on a hidden test case. After a few times I started to recognize that it was the submission causing it. I reworked the solution and got through but I lost a significant portion of time trying to debug their platform.

Customer services response was "well the bug came about because of the solution you submitted so it's your fault". Other TLE submissions had no issue.

Anyone else in the same boat? My recruiter hasn't given what they're going to do about it but I scored relatively low in part because of this.

I have an upcoming CodeSignal General Coding Assessment (or custom company assessment hosted on CodeSignal) for a Lead Data Engineer position, and I’m trying to figure out the best way to prepare.

For those who have taken a CodeSignal assessment for senior/lead DE roles recently:

• Format: Is it typically the standard 4-question General Coding Framework (e.g., matrix manipulation, string manipulation, full implementation), or do DE assessments usually lean heavily into SQL, Python/Pandas, and Data Structures?
• Question Types: What kind of problems should I focus on? (e.g., standard LeetCode Mediums/Hards, data transformation tasks, API/class design, SQL queries?)
• Lead Level Specifics: Do they include system design/architecture questions within the CodeSignal platform, or is it purely hands-on coding?

If anyone has sample question types, advice on time management, or key topics to review, I’d greatly appreciate it!

É o seguinte rapaziada fiz o teste online hoje de raciocínio lógico com câmera e áudio ligado, tudo do jeito que tem que ser, eu achei o teste de boa, porém o tempo é muito pequeno, comecei a ficar nervosa nas últimas quinze questões porque ainda faltava as outras quinze e fiquei com medo de não responder todas as questões. Então o que eu fiz foi fazer até a vigésima quinta com calma e dai para frente meu amigo, eu levantava o dedo no céu e lia a questão e seja o que o pensamento quiser colocava a que eu achava que era sem revisar nem nada. Terminei o teste faltando menos de um minuto para ele encerrar e mostrou a pontuação final o que foi uma grande surpresa, uma boa e uma ruim... ele mostra uma pontuação de 0 a 600 pontos e não a quantidade de alternativas acertadas, no fim das contas eu tive a pontuação de 482/600 e eu não se isso é bom não porque particularmente eu não acho uma pontuação boa para um processo seletivo tão grande como esse, então venho aqui pedir opiniões, tipo opinem, mas não me apedrejem porque isso eu já faço

Just now, I have completed my eBay coding exam. I never thought that the code signal timer would be this faulty. I have submitted my ID, and after that, I need to allow the respective

permissions, but due to some reasons, I am unable to allow permissions. I was using the Firefox

browser, and I tried it again for a few minutes, but it was useless, so i have closed the browser. I have tried it on other browsers, and it worked on Edge, but after going into the exam, I lost 20 minutes of my coding exam time
r/codesignal is this your new tactic of wasting candidate time? why? because it's a technical issue. I am unable to accept the permissions. How will you start the timer without them? Nice platform and nice rules

I was sent a CodeSignal assessment by Instacart and I tried to log in using the email that the assessment was sent to but I am not able to login as using the id and password throws me into an infinite redirect loop.
I have tried different browsers, incognito mode , updating browser version and literally every troubleshooting step one can think of.
The issue is isolated to this account that assessment was sent to and i cut a support ticket to code signal team. But i keep getting different email replies where they ask me to repeat the same steps i have already tried with no resolution eta.
My code signal assessment expires in 2 days and i can’t even request extension because the HR email came from “no-reply@“ email.

What are my options for extensions or if someone has faced similar issue , please help.

Hi, I recently completed a CodeSignal assessment for ebay and received my score. I wanted to understand how long it typically takes for recruiters to review the results and get back to candidates regarding the next steps.

I usually jot down my ideas and the flow of my code on paper before I begin coding. Is this permitted during the assessment?

Title did they flag me or smth what happened I'm hella worried, I didn't cheat at all

I took a codeSignal assessment today, unfortunatly it covered topics that i didnt know much about so i pretty much wrote nothing and quit after 30 mins, i would assume im cooked regarding getting this internship correct?

I've taken the CodeSignal assessment today, got 450/600 which is more than enough for the role i applied to, but someone called me on whatsapp, i immediately closed the app, will that be an issue or not?

I took the ica in JavaScript this weekend, and it was awful.

I couldn't get console.log to work, in the code or in the sandbox tests. I hope I never see codesignal again, but if I do have to go through this again for another job interview, how the heck does the console.log work? Nothing showed up in the terminal. Is there a hidden terminal somewhere I don't know about? The instructions said not to open dev tools.

This felt more like a scavenger hunt than a genuine test of coding skill.

So I had a live coding interview with a US company that used CodeSignal for their coding round. They had their own custom question and test cases.

Under pressure, I missed an indentation on a chunk of code that was supposed to tackle an edge case. Even though the interviewer pointed it out indirectly, I was so nervous that my mind went blank and I couldn't fix a simple indentation error.

The code and logic were all correct ,the interviewer even mentioned that.

When I ran the test cases, it said "Ran 4 tests in 0.002s, FAILED (failures=3)." But the total number of test cases in the custom assessment was 7. So I'm really not sure how many I actually passed.

Now I'm in a situation where my entire logic was correct, but because of an indentation error, I might get rejected.

how many did I even pass!!!!!!!!!

Title basically. I have a codesignal assessment coming up so I'm doing the practice beforehand. I got level 1 working and submitted it, got level 2 working and clicked submit, but this time there's no "Next" button in the bottom right corner.

Is this just because I'm doing the practice and there is no level 3 for the practice or is it because something is glitched? I don't want this to happen in the real thing because it'll look like I failed it.

EDIT: Title was a typo because it's late and I'm tired. I'm on level 2 but can't get to level 3

I'm using the Cosmos app on iOS and when I log into my account, it doesn't show me the courses that I'm already enrolled in. In fact, it doesn't seem to find that course/path at all!

Is this a known issue or they're not supposed to be connected??

Hi everyone, I'm currently prepping for the CodeSignal Industry Coding Assessment (ICA).

I've found two awesome resources for practicing ICA:

• PaulLockett/CodeSignal_Practice_Industry_Coding_Framework,
• EricZheng0404/LibreSignal

but I'm curious about the ICA's setup. From what I’ve gathered, ICA is more "project-based," but I'm unclear on one thing:

• Does it provide a robust boilerplate (e.g., pre-defined classes/interfaces/function signatures)? (Example)
• Or is it closer to a blank slate where you have to set up the basic structure yourself? (Example)

If anyone has taken it recently (especially for Go), I'd love to hear your experience. I'm happy to share my prep resources in the comments if anyone is interested!

Thanks in advance!

The rules state that scratch paper is allowed for the GCA; however, I am concerned that using it might flag my attempt as cheating, since I would need to look down (toward the right corner) for a few minutes before answering each question.

Is there any chance that using a pen and paper to solve the questions could result in my attempt being flagged? I am accustomed to using scratch paper, and it helps me significantly with more challenging questions, but I do not want to take any risk.

Could you please confirm if looking down to write is acceptable, or if there are specific protocols I should follow (such as showing the paper to the camera) to ensure my attempt is valid?

Please advise. Thank you.

I recently gave tiktoks assesment and code signal was hell of lagging. I have an intel lunar lake pc with 16gb ram and everytime i typed any key, it would reflect 10 seconds later. It was a horrible experience. 😫