The test checks whether you have the skills and performance of a senior python backend developer and as you say, at the time of taking it, you didn't have the required proficiency.
You can apply 365 days after your last application, though please note that you have to be better than the last time.
This blog post shows how to absolutely TERRORIZE a core developer using:
1. Bussiness card of an FBI agent, with a "call me" text hand-written on it
2. A phone and 10 minutes of time
If you have a few business cards and an entire afternoon, you can nuke entire projects (?) Something is not right here!
If you hurt your leg, you go to a doctor and he fixes you up. There is no shame in going to a doctor. If a postcard and a phone call can ruin your life, you can ALSO go to a doctor, and guess what, he will fix you up in that case as well! Try it. Go for one session with an open mind and (unless you have a really horrible doctor) it will help tremendously.
What if all you got is an Ak47 and they have ships, tanks, air fighters and drones in the sky?
Please think what would happen if the tables were turned - your country is invaded by a much bigger nation with a technological advantage. Would you organize a peaceful protest for your enemy to ignore?
If non-CP images start being blocked by this system, some gallery author is going to notice it pretty quickly and report it to the website owner. This censorship problem is remarkably easy to destroy the trust of the CP filter and I doubt people at Microsoft would fail to predict this.
bust most importantly:
(c) don't write much of this self-less code that nobody will be able to understand, test or statically analyze (since many tools assume OOP)
Article suggests that a high performance framework is implemented where notification of a unavailability will be propagated "before real user tried to execute a request" (which would have 50% probability of happening if number of heartbeats per second would be equal to number of requests per second the service serves, ha ha). Also from the Article we can learn that sending a 304 with content does not work as expected (!?)
Not only that, but there should be only one connection to database, through all traffic will go. Pulling that up through a network switch connected to a server with multiple cables, or pushing all that through a single TCP connection, with a foot note that advises against rewriting it after a few years?
Also, everything explained there should run in a single thread, because surely it will be fast enough.
Good luck with that.
[if you find other funny stuff that I missed, leave them in the comment section below]
Haven't we all frowned upon picking on females in tech industry just yesterday?! It is NOT okay to wildly imply that the author of this code is of certain age and gender.
EDIT: it was shown by the comment below that it was actually written by someone with a popular Polish female name. I was shaken by the article yesterday and thus oversensitive. Sorry about that.
Is there a law which specifies which advantage is fair and what is not?
Why should any company be forbidden from utilizing assets their employees legally developed, especially when they want to use that asset in pursuit of a key objective ("hire more smart people")? Should a large newspaper be forbidden from advertising their openings in the printed newspaper itself just because other newspapers failed to acquire comparable audience?
Commenters, please note that the author did not say "overtime" or "long hours".
My advice: start working on a side project which will give you satisfaction from every half hour of your work. Does not need to be an IT project. You'll think of something.
This is, hands down, the most awesome game I have ever played through a web browser!
Please start logging as soon as possible. Simple heat maps of cursor positions, draw areas and pings would be awesome to look at. It could be shown to players in the end of the game.
If you collect data, I will help you process it. I am especially interested in measuring the percentage of players who volunteer to change a poor soul trapped far away, just because it is a nice thing to do. Percentage of players who never do that would also be interesting, just as players who figure out that they can click 2 or sometimes 4 buttons by oneself, freeing several cursors.