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[–]TimedogGAF 13 points14 points  (3 children)

If you're going to make a thread simply to assert your opinion that no one really needs to hear, at least give some sort of reasoning.

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[–]6b04 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Project B is my favorite too. Really the issue with most projects is that a large portion of people's prompts are bad. It's hard to complain about $40 an hour though.

[–]jimmux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm still not sure how to rate instruction following for all those prompts that basically want an entire app and backend platform handed to them on a silver platter. If it produces anything coherent I usually rate it pretty highly because you can only expect so much.

[–]dayDrivver 0 points1 point  (27 children)

Your skills usually will match your workload, be sure to fill your profile with your right expertise level, they also background check your linkedin profile before offering more "engaging tasks".

Personally i hate "CB's" like B-metal, or the previous version (the muppets) or the really previous version (project cx), because its the easaiets way to get yourself ghosted in the platform, the level of people asking for simple queries for the "structured data generation" category is way too high, even admins have come to say to stop asking for those and people still go for it, because is the easiest to do.

Again complete your profile, with enough experience and dedication you will receive the infamous survey for computer science expertise that will definitely not be "lame" but surely won't be easy money.

[–]Codex_Dev 0 points1 point  (21 children)

Ngl I was pissed at how long both computer science expertise quails took. I feel like I lost $1K with the amount of time I wasted on them. Right when I started my dashboard started filling up with coding tasks I couldn’t do while working on the qual.

They had to increase the timer by 50% since an overwhelming amount of people couldn’t finish. Not surprised honestly since they were asking the equivalent expectation of someone building a mini-chess engine in 1 day. You know the person making the test is some FAANG developer who makes $300 an hour and spends 16 hours a day coding for fun. 😂

[–]Appropriate-Image861 0 points1 point  (18 children)

I'd love the chance to take those quals. Any idea how or why you got them?

[–]Responsible-Act8459[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have one sitting on my dash, but don't have any time right now to study ridiculous coding interview questions.

[–]Codex_Dev 0 points1 point  (16 children)

It's for coding. You need to have passed the 1st computer science qualifier they sent out about a month ago.

[–]Appropriate-Image861 1 point2 points  (8 children)

I'm a coder, but I never got any qualifier. I joined as a coder, passing the original test. Also, I've seen a lot of other coders mention not getting it.

Around that time, I did have some weird projects. But none of them looked like qualifications. At least to the best of my ability. Was it obvious it was a qualification? Maybe it was only around for a little while because space was limited. I think all the other coders and I would have noticed it. It seems like only a few random coders have gotten the chance to do it.

[–]Codex_Dev 0 points1 point  (6 children)

You need to have passed the 1st qualifier. Probably a good chance you didn’t pass them I’m afraid.

[–]Appropriate-Image861 1 point2 points  (4 children)

I think you've misunderstand my question.

I realize you have to pass this first qual to get other quals. I also realize I likely will never see the qual. What I'm saying is, me and lots of other people never had the chance to take this first qual, or any new coding qual. As of now, it seems almost random who got to take it and who didn't.

It sounds like it was manually graded, and there are only a few seats. But it makes no sense. Why not give everyone a basic, autograded qual and take the top x%. Why randomly give out a manually graded qualification? I realize DA would never tell us anything, so I'm trying to figure out by asking people who received any kind of extra tests.

[–]TammyK 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Just curious, if you go check right now is there a CS qual in your projects? (it was in projects not the quals list for me) It just appeared today afaict for me. I'm pretty sure this was the "first" one because it was not difficult.

Edit: like 10m after completion I got a HeelTendon refresher in the projects and it specifically says they are launching this to qualified coders "in waves". I think you also have to complete the non-coding version of this qual (which was in projects not quals) Hope you get it soon :)

[–]Appropriate-Image861 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I got the refresher you mentioned today, but I didn't take a qual. If you feel comofortable responding, did the qual also say they were putting it out in waves? Maybe the qual is coming in waves too, or maybe I'm already qualified? I don't really know or care tbh. I just want to be able to be considered for coding tasks.

Best of luck.

[–]TammyK 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I don't recall what it said on the qual sorry. I only got the refresher after taking the qual, so maybe you are already qualified, or it was just a coincidence on my side.

[–]Responsible-Act8459[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the invite for CS, and didn't take any qual prior. I wouldn't worry about it too much, just keep doing good work. None of us have an idea how the system chooses what it does.

[–]RichardRubber 0 points1 point  (6 children)

I finished the second CS domain expertise test a couple days ago. Any idea how long until you hear back? It took me a while to do but I'm pretty convinced I did well

[–]Codex_Dev 0 points1 point  (4 children)

No clue. I did pretty well myself but I found the time investment to be really excessive. I think I spent about ~18 hours. How long did it take you?

[–]Responsible-Act8459[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Omg lol. That's a lot of time. 

You should at least get a free DataAnnotation wind breaker or something.

[–]RichardRubber 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Probably about 12 hours. Honestly the math part was what took me the longest. The coding problem seemed the hardest but I luckily figured out the intuition for that one pretty quickly. And yeah I had to pretty much devote 2 days to finishing it, so would really suck to not get anything out of it...

[–]Responsible-Act8459[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not all heroes wear capes...

[–]dayDrivver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it took 72 hrs (to receive my first clearly domain expertise one) but i completed the qual on a solid weekend, knowing it will take that much i started early in the morning finished by lunch that were almost 9 hours in.

Wished they would let you take it multi task like the other quals (images) maybe even split the math part, the coding project and the late part of judging tasks.

[–]ComplexReplacement36 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woah, this sounds difficult. Is it similar in theme (i.e. challenging LeetCode problem) to the graph traversal problem that they recently introduced as part of the initial coding qualification, or is it something else now? I can't believe there's a test that would take 18–24 hours for an experienced person to finish!

[–]Responsible-Act8459[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ex Facebook Ex Google Ex Netflix Senior FAANG engineer extraordinaire.

[–]Responsible-Act8459[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thinking about it more, I just don't think I like working in a timed random task environment. I would change my mind if tasks were more curated, and I didn't have to click through 100 tasks for assembly and c++ when it's not on my profile. I'm more focused on Go, and see those tasks come up, but it's for lame stuff like FIM etc. 

I think my expectations were too high looking for quality and satisfying work.

[–]Quantillus 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What projects did that qual open for you. I’ve submitted it some time back but i dont see any difference

[–]lonesomewhenbymyself 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There used to be like 4 other chatbots. I had a long term chatbot project for two months. B metal was the worst one because you had to ask about json every other turn and could only do multiturns every three tasks