Learning from TransferWise Coding Contest #2

It is an impromptu decision to participate in TransferWise Coding Contest #2 on 12 Feb 2019.  However, since the contest is at Aperia and eday is paid, it is motivating for me to experience a different kind of events.

Initially, I thought that the contest is related to drone.  I found out on the spot that they are using HackerRank. TransferWise offers services to send money in converted currency to another account. This is a smart way for them to organize the event and achieve multiple purposes, eg. advertising their services, recruitment, train the staff for organizing the events.

The 2 questions are not hard.  However, due to lack of practice, I am unable to resolve any questions in 1.5 hours.  I am only resolved on the next day by spending additional 1.5 hours.  However, there are guys who resolved 2 questions in about 30 minutes.  This prompts me that I need to practice more if algorithm is the direction I want to focus.

Forget to mention, pizza, chicken wing, apple and fruit is offered.  The pizza is quite good.  This is a nice experience definitely.  Unfortunately, due to lack of confidence, I did not talk to others much.  I should think lesser and be more confident next time.