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Coinbase set up an on site and rejected me the day before the interview, after I was already in SF, partially because of how I capitalized my constants on their coding test (capitalizing is a Google standard).

They should have instead rejected me before I flew out, or after the interview, if they didn't like how I capitalized my constants.

To be fair they were going through a lot of growing pains, but I hope they figured this out by now so no one has to go through that. I accept I was not a right fit but I disagree with how they handled it. I also went through Trible Byte so I'm not sure what role they played



This breaks the instructions at the top. Please don't do that.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17903255 and marked it off-topic.


At least you got quite the story out of it, how did you find out that it was the capitalization (also: what is the standard, now I’m doubly-curious)?

Chalking that up to growing pains is quite big of you. That’s a monumental multi-person screw-up in my book.


After requesting feedback, they sent a point breakdown and I saw they detracted just enough points for it to put me under their threshold


> They should have instead rejected me before I flew out, or after the interview, if they didn't like how I capitalized my constants.

Did they pay for your costs?


Time is money. But yeah they paid for the costs they said they would, $100 in bitcoin. Triple Byte pays airfare and hotel


wtf did they give you a code guideline doc beforehand that you did not follow? I don't get it.


Not relevant. You simply don’t want to work for a company that will fire you for code guideline violations. You know why? Cause code guidelines can be scripted into the tool chain. So, irrelevant except to the pointy headed fools you absolutely don’t want to work for or with.


No they said to follow idiomatic JS, but in JS a lot of idioms contradict each other (see standardJS vs Eslint-airbnb for example)




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