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I am not agreeing on this. Unless you are hiring an expert, most of developers out there earning their lives by coding can not write a simple bubble sort when y
by whizzkid 13y ago
I am not agreeing on this.
Unless you are hiring an expert, most of developers out there earning their lives by coding can not write a simple bubble sort when you give them a console.
Not because they don't have the capacity, They will either not remember the algorithm at the moment or haven't had a such situation requires similar approach at their previous work.
If you really want to know if he/she knows stuff, ask him a task/question/bug and let him explain how he would solve it. if he is good, he will start telling the approach in different aspects, he would even start writing you a pseudo code to solve it.
The approach taken in the article is not explaining how to HIRE programmers.
It is about how to ELEMINATE them.
- RHSeeger 13y agoTo be fair, eliminating a fair portion of candidates (assuming the test does a good job of identifying the ones you wouldn't hire) isn't a bad thing. Time is a valuable resource.
- whizzkid 13y agoalways write tests while programming :) you did not cover the whole task! // Your code if "Time is a valuable resource." Don't waste employers' time end // Refactor // Adds candidates' time to the case // Decreases listOfCandidates() loading time. if "Time is a valuable resource" Publish a well-detailed job position end