Re: [offlist] Re: OT: hiring programmers

2007-06-26 Thread A. Pagaltzis
Hi Yossi, sorry it took me a while to get back to this. So much to respond to, so little timeā€¦ * Yossi Kreinin [2007-06-15 14:00]: > I've seen the claim about having to check if a candidate is > fluent with pointers & recursion at least 3 times on those. I > tend to agree, since the moment when

Re: [offlist] Re: OT: hiring programmers

2007-06-15 Thread Yossi Kreinin
Thanks for your reply. I'm actually co-interviewing people these days, so I'm quite interested in opinions on the subject... yes. Jeff Atwood from codinghorror.com started the meme a while ago: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000781.html Speaking of uberpopular blogs: I've seen th

Re: [offlist] Re: OT: hiring programmers

2007-06-15 Thread A. Pagaltzis
Hi Yossi, * Yossi Kreinin [2007-06-14 13:45]: > That FizzBuzz silliness, which for some reason spreads like the > plague (where did it start - on some uberpopular blog or > something?), yes. Jeff Atwood from codinghorror.com started the meme a while ago: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives

[offlist] Re: OT: hiring programmers

2007-06-14 Thread Yossi Kreinin
A. Pagaltzis wrote: Nowhere did I say that writing code outside of the job should be a precondition. Others did :) A surprising number of applicants can't actually program It's really quite surprising. bias, so I wouldn't to sit them down with a moronic coding test (like that "FizzBuzz"