Re: Skill Testing

There are pretty good plagiarism detectors these days — I’m under the
impression that these are used at many (most?) colleges, especially for
introductory courses.

Ken Meltsner

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 3:28 PM Marty Halvorson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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