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So they hired these two psychologists, William Cannon and Dallis Perry, to come up with a personality test to screen for good programmers Who is “they”? I have
by gaius 9y ago
So they hired these two psychologists, William Cannon and Dallis Perry, to come up with a personality test to screen for good programmers
Who is “they”? I have been programming as a hobby since the 80s and professionally since the 90s and have never heard of them - and I have been sent on several courses on interviewing by several companies, and interviewed hundreds of candidates.
- michaelt 9y agoGoogling for Dallis Perry found me: Dallis Perry and William Cannon, "Vocational Interests of Computer Programmers", Journal of Applied Psychology 51, no. 1 (1967); and also "A vocational interest scale for computer programmers", Proc. fourth SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research, June 27 - 28, 1966 It seems they worked for "System Development Corporation", which Wikipedia says "was considered the world's first computer software company" Unfortunately the text of the article isn't available online.
- gaius 9y agoRight, but zero relevance to any company operating today or over the span of time over which I have been programming. Weren’t the claims of MDMA-fuelled sex parties also debunked?