I'm working on a simple, local storage budgeting app called "Wasa Budget". I wrote it because I got tired of tracking my budget on excel sheets. It's written in flutter, it works well enough that I was able to entirely ditch the excel sheets now.

I want to publish it on Google play, but I need testers. If anyone cares about budgeting, I'd love to get some feedback.

Here's the app link: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/dev.selfreliant.wasa_bu...

I don't think you can download it without being added to my testers list though. Send me your Gmail address if you're interested!

'A testing version of this app hasn't been published yet or isn't available for this account.'

> Send me your Gmail address if you're interested!

Where? nleschov at gmail

I just added you to the testers list. The link should work now.

Word of warning, Google is pretty dumb and even requires testers to pay for the app. It's going for 3$, but I can reimburse everyone who helps me test once the testing phase is finished

Ah, looks like I can create discount codes too, so I could also send you a code so the payment is skipped. Let me know if you need that

Thats a good point. That's probably a way better way to run an interview than anything else. Back in my highschool band, our band director used to say "play how you practice, and practice how you play" - this sounds like that rule applied pretty effectively. At the end of the day, our colleagues are people we problem solve with, so we should test things like that when we're hiring

That was awesome. I've been working on a budgeting app and recently demoed it to my in-laws, and I definitely felt quite embarrassed as I was showing it and explaining it. I felt a bit discouraged after but this article has helped me realize that maybe I'm on the right path. Thanks!

Yea I totally agree. During one of my interviews, the interviewers asked me to write "snake game" in react. I had spent the last week studying their open source project and learning how things were structured, and then the two part interview consisted of parsing json and outputting it as markdown, and writing snake game. They're weren't a game ship, so it really didn't make any sense that they would've asked about that... It was really lame

Yea I agree. I don't rely on the AI to generate code for me, I just use it as a glorified search engine. Sure I do some copypasta from time to time, but it almost always needs modification to work correctly... Man does AI get stuff wrong sometimes lol

That sounds really cool. I wish I was running into more job interviews like the one you describe. The adversarial interviewing really hurts the entire feel of the process

> The adversarial interviewing really hurts the entire feel of the process

Agreed. I have been through technical interviews where at the end, my feeling as a candidate was "I don't want to work with this asshole".

Man, I really hate it!

I can't fathom how making the whole process being all hostile makes any real sense!

We all want that great person to show up and really help, not just cope or put up a facade to survive.

Yet, that is exactly what happens. People that other people expect to bond with get put through the wringer....

Seems counterproductive to me.

Wow, that was a great write up. Can I interview with you? Lol, everything you wrote was really spot on with my own interview experiences. I tend to get super nervous during interviews and have choked up on many interviews asking for live coding on crazy algorithm problems. It state of hiring seems to be really bad right now. But I'll take your advice and try to get in contact with some recruiters

How do we apply? The link you posted doesn't seem to have the positions you've mentioned