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Would it be offered any time I want to take it or is it only available to take once a year? If the latter why would I take it if I’m happy in my job? What happe

Would it be offered any time I want to take it or is it only available to take once a year? If the latter why would I take it if I’m happy in my job? What happens if I don’t take it and get laid off later in the year? How someone talks during their technical job interview should be seen as equally important to the content of what they say during it. Will there be an oral component of your exam? Are there different exams for different languages/technologies and industries? How many exams do I have to take? Do people cheat on the yearly standardized exams in place (that are used, for university entrance, for example) now? Do hiring companies tend to believe that their needs are very similar to other hiring companies? How much faith would they put in such a standardized exam?

amichail 2y ago
The yearly standardized exams could be company-specific. So, if you want to apply for a software engineering position at Google, you would have to take the yearly Google standardized exam for software engineers.
- b20000 2y ago
  i am against companies taking over education, sorry this limits people’s mobility as they are then glued to a set of company specific skills
  - amichail 2y ago
    The exam could test for general abilities of importance to Google rather than Google specific technologies.
    - b20000 2y ago
      not sure if you realize how idiotic this sounds
      - paulcole 2y ago
        Narrator: He did not realize how idiotic this sounds.
  - j45 2y ago
    Universities are companies too. There is lots of education that can’t happen that companies have to fend for themselves and create materials to teach. 70% of learning is informal learning, outside of the classroom. The master/apprentice model has existed for so long for a reason. Learning the work is best done beside experience.
    - b20000 2y ago
      PRIVATE universities maybe. I graduated at a public university. companies need to educate you on the job. that will never change and it is unreasonable to demand you already have all skills ready to go. but that is where we are in the US…. it is also crazy that you need to copy paste job requirements into your CV role per role. a resume or CV is something you make ONCE. but i guess HR drones are too dumb to read so that is where we are.
      - j45 2y ago
        We pay one group to teach us and expect a different group to pay us and teach us? Reality for the many might be somewhere in the middle, off to one side.. there’s academic organizations with billions not pushing it off into organizations with millions to deliver what students paid tuition for.. relatively speaking? Companies don’t always have to hire graduates to educate them on the job. Profession and career development so important but a part of the work. It’s a skewed tech reality distortion field where tech companies compete by playing defence to tie up labour so others can’t grow… that results in those pesky mass layoffs. Repeatedly. Organizations very well may take over educating the workforce and leverage it like salarymen in Japan, low pay for lots of hours and stability. Not sure if I like that either. Or maybe they’ll just take the demands for remote work locally and let it be a global market. In the scenarios where a company is paying to educate you .. for free .. in addition to paying you a salary.. to learn? That you’ll become more valuable with, not necessarily give back or create value greater than what you’ve been paid, in addition to you paying an academic institution money to learn.. often under debt is.. sound? The gap between academic degrees and the workforce is generally increasing without cherry picking small groups as exceptions. Historically, Universities that taught you how to think didn’t have STEM. They consciously moved from liberal arts into into stem for the funding opportunities. Most of all I believe everyone has a right to learn and access opportunities to improve their life. The above doesn’t sound like it’s meant to speed that up. Happy to learn from other perspectives.
- stackskipton 2y ago
  Most companies wouldn’t want to spend the time making company specific exams so they would buy some off the shelf exams and we are back to Leetcode problem.
  - amichail 2y ago
    If a company can't afford to make its own exams, then it could still look at the results of a more general standardized yearly exam.
    - paulcole 2y ago
      Who administers the more general standardized yearly exam?
- paulcole 2y ago
  Oh sick so I could just ask my friends who took it earlier in the year for the answers?

amichail 2y ago

The yearly standardized exams could be company-specific. So, if you want to apply for a software engineering position at Google, you would have to take the yearly Google standardized exam for software engineers.

b20000 2y ago
i am against companies taking over education, sorry this limits people’s mobility as they are then glued to a set of company specific skills
- amichail 2y ago
  The exam could test for general abilities of importance to Google rather than Google specific technologies.
  - b20000 2y ago
    not sure if you realize how idiotic this sounds
    - paulcole 2y ago
      Narrator: He did not realize how idiotic this sounds.
- j45 2y ago
  Universities are companies too. There is lots of education that can’t happen that companies have to fend for themselves and create materials to teach. 70% of learning is informal learning, outside of the classroom. The master/apprentice model has existed for so long for a reason. Learning the work is best done beside experience.
  - b20000 2y ago
    PRIVATE universities maybe. I graduated at a public university. companies need to educate you on the job. that will never change and it is unreasonable to demand you already have all skills ready to go. but that is where we are in the US…. it is also crazy that you need to copy paste job requirements into your CV role per role. a resume or CV is something you make ONCE. but i guess HR drones are too dumb to read so that is where we are.
    - j45 2y ago
      We pay one group to teach us and expect a different group to pay us and teach us? Reality for the many might be somewhere in the middle, off to one side.. there’s academic organizations with billions not pushing it off into organizations with millions to deliver what students paid tuition for.. relatively speaking? Companies don’t always have to hire graduates to educate them on the job. Profession and career development so important but a part of the work. It’s a skewed tech reality distortion field where tech companies compete by playing defence to tie up labour so others can’t grow… that results in those pesky mass layoffs. Repeatedly. Organizations very well may take over educating the workforce and leverage it like salarymen in Japan, low pay for lots of hours and stability. Not sure if I like that either. Or maybe they’ll just take the demands for remote work locally and let it be a global market. In the scenarios where a company is paying to educate you .. for free .. in addition to paying you a salary.. to learn? That you’ll become more valuable with, not necessarily give back or create value greater than what you’ve been paid, in addition to you paying an academic institution money to learn.. often under debt is.. sound? The gap between academic degrees and the workforce is generally increasing without cherry picking small groups as exceptions. Historically, Universities that taught you how to think didn’t have STEM. They consciously moved from liberal arts into into stem for the funding opportunities. Most of all I believe everyone has a right to learn and access opportunities to improve their life. The above doesn’t sound like it’s meant to speed that up. Happy to learn from other perspectives.
stackskipton 2y ago
Most companies wouldn’t want to spend the time making company specific exams so they would buy some off the shelf exams and we are back to Leetcode problem.
- amichail 2y ago
  If a company can't afford to make its own exams, then it could still look at the results of a more general standardized yearly exam.
  - paulcole 2y ago
    Who administers the more general standardized yearly exam?
paulcole 2y ago
Oh sick so I could just ask my friends who took it earlier in the year for the answers?