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I had a conversation with a friend about a hypothetical algorithms certification program. Yearly, you sit the exam, do the whiteboarding, regurgitate the big O
by phamilton 11y ago
I had a conversation with a friend about a hypothetical algorithms certification program. Yearly, you sit the exam, do the whiteboarding, regurgitate the big O stuff. You get a nice little certificate, and then a tech company can skip that part of the interview if you show you've passed the test in the last year.
The question then becomes, what do you ask if someone's algorithmic knowledge is no longer in doubt?
- mywittyname 11y agoTheoretically, the employer could just look at the grades a person received in their algorithms class in college. So, how would your certification program inspire more confidence than a university degree? That's one of the perennial problems with programming certifications -- they either certify technology that falls out of favor/use after a short time, or it certifies evergreen techniques that colleges/universities are supposed to cover. So you end up competing with MS/Cisco/Sun or Harvard/Berkley/etc. Also, sites ranging from HackerRank to StackExchange offer a similar service. It's not a "certification" per se, but they certainly market their platform as a way to identify effective developers.
- phamilton 11y agoI didn't mean to say it would be an easy problem to solve. More interesting though is the vacuum it creates in the tech interview process.