Re: Skill Testing

Well there's language plagiarism and code plagiarism.  At the end of the 
day it's all bits.  :-)

Greg

On 4/2/2019 3:53 PM, Ken Meltsner 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
>>
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