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No. You just look at their code. You can scan sample code in 5 minutes and determine how well someone knows the language. I won't even consider having an in-pe
by staunch 16y ago
No. You just look at their code. You can scan sample code in 5 minutes and determine how well someone knows the language.
I won't even consider having an in-person interview with someone until I've seen their code. It's just too often a waste of their time and mine.
- chromatic 16y agoThat's a better approach if you know the language well enough to analyze their code. I didn't write that list for people who already know how to hire good programmers.
- staunch 16y agoMy advice to people in that case is to pay some well respected person whatever it costs to help you hire (evaluate code samples at least). http://www.stonehenge.com/consulting.html http://www.stonehenge.com/consulting.html "Human resources hiring support, including interviewing and evaluating candidates" I would at least have someone like merlyn hire your first person. P.S. I do think it's a good list of basic Perl knowledge. Id on't think it's smart for someone who doesn't know the language to hire people though.
- chaosfox 16y agoso.. if you don't have any knowledge on perl and you want to hire a perl programmer you first.. hire a perl programmer to help you ? won't that put you back on the step 1 ?
- thomas11 16y agoIt's much easier to check the credentials of the relatively few people who offer such services. For the above example, you'd find that the Stonehenge people [1] have a long history of contributions to Perl and an excellent reputation. [1] http://www.stonehenge.com/staff.html http://www.stonehenge.com/staff.html
- gcheong 16y agoHow much code and what type is enough? All of the perl code I've written is safely behind company firewalls that I no longer have access to. I could probably whip up something of a trivial nature on short notice, but nothing that would have seen any production use.
- staunch 16y agoMore code just increases the reliability of the assessment. Even a very small amount of code is enough to decide whether to skip the resume or follow up on it. Unless their name is on a (good) Perl book I'd skip over anyone who won't submit even a small code sample.
- p_nathan 16y agoWell said. The bulk of my recent code is simply not available for public use.
- bellaire 16y agoI'm thinking that's a good reason to contribute to some open source projects. Unless, of course, your employer prohibits you from doing so... in which case I has a sad for you. :(