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I question that bit of common knowledge. I went to a large state school for undergrad and tutored people regularly. By senior year, even the bottom performing
by learc83 9y ago
I question that bit of common knowledge.
I went to a large state school for undergrad and tutored people regularly. By senior year, even the bottom performing students wouldn't have had a problem with fizzbuzz or similar screening problems. We regularly had coding problems much harder than that on tests.
Unless there were other factors involved like maybe the pressure caused by the weirdly adversarial hazing process that the tech interview has become.
- commandlinefan 9y agoYeah, I'd really like to know what colleges these people are coming out of - if they're real colleges and not just paper diploma mills, I'd have to question their accreditation. I didn't go to MIT - I went to a tier-3 (or 4...) school and you couldn't have graduated, with any GPA no matter how low, without having produced dozens of working programming assignments, many much more difficult than any take-home work assignment.
- marsrover 9y agoI personally went to college with someone who could not program at all when he graduated. He made a lot of friends and had a lot of help the entire way through. It's been 7 years and he has never worked as a developer.
- learc83 9y ago>I personally went to college with someone who could not program at all when he graduated. If you mean can't program fizzbuzz or simliar, how did he make it through tests? Did he cheat? In most classes I had, tests were around 60% of your grade.