[charlescurt123]

Self taught, come from EE background.

Was originally building firmware and hardware for previous company while testing DS on their systems. They liked my work and I switched to DS and ended up a team lead.

Honestly have never had a take home exercise but would love it if I could. I basically make my own work, if I don't get work I will build other projects for them and try to sell it to the company.

I normally make good value projects and can sell it. It's how I went from hardware to DS lead of a team in a few years.

[1123581321]

You sound pretty cool and useful to companies that get it. My suggestion is to find ways to present on some of the things you’ve done. Then you can point to the presentation video/slides, plus you’ll probably receive inbound inquiries from companies that could actually use creative thinking and building.

The take home exercise/work sample companies are out there. Here’s a list I helped contribute to. https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

[gedy]

Yeah I'm EE and CompE background, and been in software for 20 years, it gets old with the 26yo "senior" dev interviewing you rolling his eyes like you are some big liar for not wizzing through his CS quiz questions (oh and for front end positions, lol). Studying EE was much harder and well-rounded engineering program compared to CS degree at the time I was in school.