I've also known 3+ year developers who have combination of skills who coldn't code them selves out of a for loop to save themselves. Each with OO experience to boot.
One thing on paper vs what you "guage" via interview also can be the filter. You can pull out certain tests to also help narrow the persons skillset down (ie Gary is known for his syntax tests hehe.. ) Then theres that dreaded question "Please rate your cf skills between 1 and 10" and if they don't ask the scale (ie 1 high or low?) they fail automatically as they have poor problem solving skills - lol.... I've been on both ends a lot, i find interviewing someone to be taxing but the thing i looked the most for was personality and I always ask if they are doing any online hobbies or studying a language or two in their spare time. That and show some of your code experiments aswell... as i typically prefer someone with passion vs 100% gun coding as sometimes thats what it takes aswell. You have to have passion in this line of work or you're just a robot who can code. PASSION PEOPLE..PASSION.... -- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.mossyblog.com --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
