You can learn an online tutorial of programming languages somewhere, it does not mean you can code. Even if you can code, it does not mean you can work. It looks like you know what a pen is, but it does not express that you know how to use a pen. Even if you know how to use a pen, you are a pen user. You can use a pen to hit someone.
To write, you must not be illiterate.
When you are not illiterate, you are readable. Maybe you are writable but you are not a writer yet. When you are a writer, it does not express that you are an author. When you are an author, it is very different between poet, novelist, journalist, ... and other type of author.
If learning an online tutorial then getting an engineering job, it is not engineering anymore, people do not need to go to college.
When you complete 4 years of college by your graduation, it shows that you are enabled to be an author.
When you earn professional working experience during a time, it shows that you are an experienced pen user, not really an experienced author.
It does not show that you are not skillful enough to switch between novelist and journalist. Even if you choose to master to be a novelist, it does not show that you are enough skillful to deliver a valuable novel instead of trash novel.
This entry exam is not to test:
- whether you are experienced or not.
- whether you are smart or not.
As an engineer at Gcalls, we face plenty of nameless troubles daily before solving the right thing. The entry exam is a small simulation of our daily tasks. We try to make the clearest task with as few words as possible. If you think the entry exam is too short, it shows that your skillset is short too.
You would solve our challenge easily without any hint if during your last college's time and professional working time, you gained enough nameless troubles for solving conflicts to upgrade below skills:
- Git
- Linux
- Social Engineering (e.g: Google search, Quora, ...)
By the way, We love to hire a geek engineer, we also do not hate to hire a grit engineer. Try hard and good luck !