--On Thursday, December 07, 2000 12:52:44 PM -0500 Eric Strovink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Somebody wrote:
>
>> > If I'm way off base, please let me know. I'm spending considerable
>> > brain power on this idea and if I'm wasting it, I need to know. I
>> > don't have much spare brain power and I could use it to try to figure
>> > out my wife . . .
>
> You're way off base. Figure out the wife. I've never hired a "certified"
> engineer, and almost without exception the ones I've come across were empty sacks
> of shit.
>
I'd have to concur. A certificate means you can pass a test, it doesn't mean you can
code your way out of wet paper bag. I consider myself a very good coder, but I
don't do well on true/false, multiple choice, and similar kinds of tests. I've also
done hiring, and in my previous job, I regularly did peer interviews. I can discover
far more about a person's abilities by talking to him or her for a few minutes and
exploring some hypothetical ideas and/or programming scenarios or just talking about
stuff they've written.
-- Rob
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