On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 04:40:09PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > Of course. So how do you gauge whether a new hire has the necessary > skills? Another unfortunate symptom of our immature industry is that there > are little in the way of universally recognised qualifications. I sure > as hell can't rank someone with a CS degree as being better than someone > who is self-taught - whereas "proper" engineering degrees are a pretty > damned good indicator.
A CS degree proves nothing, of course, about how good of a programmer someone is. I was not talking about rating programmers based on their math skills, only about qualifications for writing commercial-grade software. So perhaps the gray area is commercial-grade software. What is it, how do we define its tolerance for bugs, etc... Ted
