Re: Skill Testing

Ken M, intelligent plagiarism is a time honored and much encouraged
tradition in a work environment. I can remember creating shared code
libraries as far back as the 70's.  :-)

The last thing I want as a manager (retired now) is to pay for the
reinvention of wheels.

                 ...ken...

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019, 4:54 PM Ken Meltsner <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > FoRK mailing list
> > http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork
> >
> --
> After 30+ years of email, I have used up my supply of clever .sig material.
> _______________________________________________
> FoRK mailing list
> http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork
>
_______________________________________________
FoRK mailing list
http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork