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The real world isn't a series of read and regurgitate cycles, and allowing students to use resources shifts the test focus from memorizing details to understand
by niggler 14y ago
The real world isn't a series of read and regurgitate cycles, and allowing students to use resources shifts the test focus from memorizing details to understanding.
In the same vein, I also find interviewing by nitpicking to be poorly reflective of real world work -- when you are actually programming, you have access to tools like linters and google to help you when you are chasing down a bug (and its not entirely clear how asking very subtle issues in a stressful situation like an interview represents the realities of working for the company)
- dbaupp 14y agoI think duaneb is saying that not being able to work with the other students is not like the real world, rather saying that than being able to use all the other resources is unrealistic.
- duaneb 14y agoI meant more that in the real world you are not only expected but often required to work with your peers. > In the same vein, I also find interviewing by nitpicking to be poorly reflective of real world work -- when you are actually programming, you have access to tools like linters and google to help you when you are chasing down a bug (and its not entirely clear how asking very subtle issues in a stressful situation like an interview represents the realities of working for the company) In my recent interviews I've been encouraged to google in front of my interviewers if I didn't know something because they considered it crucial. So perhaps this is changing?