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Coding is a small part of a developer's job. Given a simple task, a programmer can code to it. A software engineer can create a proper design that expands out t
by com2kid 13y ago
Coding is a small part of a developer's job. Given a simple task, a programmer can code to it. A software engineer can create a proper design that expands out to solving a wide range of problems, a design that is easy to maintain and flexible enough to deal with problems.
I don't want to see someone's first solution to a problem. I want to know the solution they came up with after 5 mental iterations and a few hallway discussions with peers.
- e12e 13y agoI wonder if the better approach (for a company like this one) would be to hire 4-5 good programmers, and 4-5 bad programmers, and let candidates write the tests; assign the candidates that most successfully identify the on-staff good coders from the bad ones the highest score? It sounds about as silly as this scoring does in the first place anyway...
- __--__ 13y agoSo the natural follow up question here is, do you have an interview process that will give you this information for a given candidate?