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by cspa 8y ago
We view this closer to CFA, where it's not required (I don't think we'd ever get to this point anyway), but we want a world where many employers do recognize CSPA. > Software Engineering is good right now because anyone, a
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by cspa 8y ago
Our initial goal is to replace the technical phone screen. We are asking companies to guarantee an interview (or skip the phone screen), if they score above a certain threshold. Long term, we hope to replace as much of the onsite as possib
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by cspa 8y ago
Thanks for the valuable feedback! Re: GAN, we tried including ML in the Core exam, but have actually since removed ML since it wasn't working. We may introduce this as part of an ML specific subject test. If you want to get involved d
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by cspa 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We try to have a good mix of trivial, novice, intermediate, and advanced questions. Some of the multiple choice questions are fact-based and just require a Google search -- this is intentional, since proper Googlin
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by cspa 8y ago
Thanks for the tip! Can you elaborate? Do you mean teaching to the test, or something else? There's a whole research field for large scale assessment and evaluation methodologies.
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by cspa 8y ago
Our third party proctoring service handles the KYC, as well as the LogMeIn. We did some vetting, and they are used by some well-known MOOCs and universities' online courses. It's a concern of ours as well, which is why we try to
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by cspa 8y ago
Currently the Core Exam is 50/50. It's designed for career-readiness. Our Technical Steering Committee is composed of majority of hiring managers, so it's intended to be useful for them -- that is, what are the qualificatio
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by cspa 8y ago
We've found that that is indeed true. The more senior and knowledgeable you are, the most likely the answer is "it depends", because all the nuances and edge cases you know about. We try to solve this with the standard &quot
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by cspa 8y ago
Thanks! (1) When we retire old exam questions, we will make them available for practice. We're working on creating more study materials! I can't promise anything before April though. (2) Ah the 440 FE is a typo. We updated the
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Launch HN: CSPA (YC S18) – SAT for Software Engineers
51 points by cspa 8y ago|28 comments
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by cspa 8y ago
It sounds like this happened after I left Crunchyroll in 2015. The process I had in place was definitely not like that :/ Well FWIW, I personally wrote the coding exercise that you enjoyed ( http://www.crunchyroll.com/
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by cspa 8y ago
That's a bug, thanks for reporting it. We don't have it in our bug tracker -- I don't recall CSPA having a Show HN post o_O.
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by cspa 8y ago
Yep I agree! In fact, about 50% of the people who take the CSPA, do it more for self-evaluation than for employment purposes. You're right, so far most of the test takers are entry-level or changing careers. To accurately assess spec
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by cspa 8y ago
Re: custom modules. One (arguably) interesting thing we do is to only take the MAXIMUM subscore of all 7 topics and use that component in the composite score, ignoring the other 6 topics. This allows candidates to focus on only certain to
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by cspa 8y ago
Great feedback! We do have a distribution of scores for our latest exam session here: https://medium.com/@cspa_exam/july-2018-cspa-results-509ace9...
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by cspa 8y ago
Excellent points -- this is something we discuss extensively. After talking with so many employers, we found that each of them look for something different. Adaptive scoring algorithms and ways to let employers create custom projections of
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by cspa 8y ago
Great feedback -- thanks! We're constantly improving the CSPA questions, and our latest iteration has quite a few changes. Some of the examples you mentioned assess how detail-oriented the candidates are. We're interested in how
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by cspa 8y ago
Sorry to hear it was that bad! :( I'd love to hear your experience, especially if I was directly involved -- you can reply or email me anonymously at james@cspa.io. If you know anything about Crunchyroll's early culture, I alway