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> I could ask a programmer to build a wooden boat, become a proficient opera singer, or complete four marathons in a year. You could, but you would get better
by NeverFade 7y ago
> I could ask a programmer to build a wooden boat, become a proficient opera singer, or complete four marathons in a year.
You could, but you would get better results by posing more relevant challenges.
If you ask them to become singers, you'd get a whole lot of people with great voices, who may or may not be good engineers.
At least coding solutions to DSA problems has a fairly high (though not perfect) correlation with being a good programmer.
- perl4ever 7y agoYou can't hire, or even interview, everyone. If you pick some random skill that a reasonable subset of programmers have, then it's entirely plausible that being good at it will correlate with programming skill and supply a population large enough to hire from. But that won't provide you any shelter if it has disparate impact on protected classes.