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Are there actual licensed engineering professionals (ie electrical, mechanical) who resort to some made up ranks to separate themselves from the herd and use pu
by sakopov 11y ago
Are there actual licensed engineering professionals (ie electrical, mechanical) who resort to some made up ranks to separate themselves from the herd and use puzzles to judge the skillset of a potential employee? How does this work in industries other than software? Just genuinely curious here.
- krupan 11y agoPutting the most positive spin on this situation as I can, I think the difference between software and other engineering disciplines is in software we are often hiring people to do things that have never been done before. Other disciplines can say, "we need you to design this, have you ever designed this before?" and the engineers can generally say, "yes, and this is how it went." For software the best way we can guess if people will be able to do the thing that they have never done before is to assess their general cleverness and problem solving skills, with puzzles. Or something like that.
- rahimnathwani 11y agoIs that true, or is it just that we're unaware of how much innovation exists in other fields?
- eecks 11y agoWhat about other professionals? Doctors, accountants, architects.. do these people have to do silly puzzles as well?