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As a CS student who's still not very confident in his skills and without enough experience to recognize his own weak spots, I would say that "you understand X's
by sfilipov 12y ago
As a CS student who's still not very confident in his skills and without enough experience to recognize his own weak spots, I would say that "you understand X's language well, but you need to improve your knowledge of algorithms and data structures" or "you have a good theoretical understanding X and Y Computer Science concepts but you need to work on side projects to gain programming experience" or "you have shallow understanding of a lot of languages/technologies but I advice you to concentrate on X or Y until you become good at them instead of jumping between L/T".
I know that very few employers would take the risk to be so frank but I personally wish they were. It would be helpful to the candidates who actually care about improving their knowledge and skills while potentially offending those who are trying to fake it.
- UrMomReadsHN 12y agoI'm not talking about that...I'm talking about people who are confused about things learned in CS101. I am assuming you can program FizzBuzz.
- lukeschlather 12y ago"For this job, writing a simple function like this with one for loop should be something you can do without thinking about it." I've told candidates variants on that theme before.
- UrMomReadsHN 12y agoVery good! I guess I just let my negativity get the best of me in frustration and doesn't make me think in a positive manner.