Re: Skill Testing

Marty Halvorson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.people.rohit-khare
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ken Ganshirt wrote on Tue, 2 Apr 2019:

> but In my opinion would work well for hiring regardless of gender, colour, or whatever, for all the reasons mentioned in this excerpt.
> Will they look at developer sites such as Stack Overflow? Will they google how to figure it out? Of course they will. But guess what, when they?re assigned that in real life, there?s a high probability they?ll do the same thing.
> It?s not that the quality of female candidates is better or worse, it?s that the presentation layer is different, and our old process tested for the wrong things.

I agree with the premise.  However, it's also an invitation to find 
existing code, that someone else wrote, and submit that.

I don't know how to compensate for that.

I got every job I interviewed for.  Perhaps that demonstrates my 
presentation skills better than my coding skills.  But, to me, 
presentation is nearly as important as ability to write code because 
whatever is written has to be explained to someone else. If no no other 
reason than passing the code off to a maintenance coder.  Doubly so if 
you're the lead.

Peace,
Marty Halvorson

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