Peter da Silva wrote:
On Jun 13, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
And then there's the horrific category of people who love software and
can talk for all day long about it and know everything they've ever
used inside out but somehow manage not to get anything done properly
and/or annoy everyone around themselves and/or they have very strong
religious beliefs about technology causing them to make costly wrong
decisions. These people are not unlikely to write code at their spare
time.
That's why you interview them instead of just having them send in a code
sample, no?
Yeah, I just mentioned them because they are the worst false positives. I
assumed that if someone thinks writing code on one's spare time is good, that
someone will kind of like the (not extremely large set of) candidates that
actually do so and can thus proceed to the next stage of testing. The smart
software-loving psychopath candidate can then strengthen the good impression in
an interview since many people will like the "passion" or whatever.
Of course it doesn't have to happen, and the high likelyhood of it didn't
directly and inevitably follow from any of the claims I was answering. I just
mentioned it because these are rare, but pretty nasty false positives.
