What is the real purpose of the programming assignments? Do they serve a mere purpose?
I found it! The code written in February 2010 for the company called kaChing , later - WealthFront . So-called kaChing hired a recruiter - Dane Santos , who contacted me through linkedin on Saturday morning, and insisted I cancelled my plans for the weekend. Instead, he said, I should not miss this great opportunity and waste spend a weekend prototyping a Widget for kaChing . I agreed. And I wrote the code. And I spent a beautiful weekend day not on the beach playing with children, but in front of the computer. And I sent my code back to Dane Santos. And this is a feedback I have received "from kaChing" through Dave: Regretfully, kaChing will not be moving forward with you. Here are a few technical comments they shared with me on your code exercise: - update is triggered by button click instead of form submit, so Enter doesn't work - document.forms isn't as robust or as simple as using an id on the text input - arrow uses an img element instead of backgrou...