On 09/09/2009, at 1:35 PM, Joshua Partogi wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Dave Bolton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Kewl. So it's okay to put your github repository url in your > resume these days? > > I've checked out GitHub repos for potential hires -- usually I'd look > at it WITH them, so we can have a discussion about it. > > Similarly, if GitHub (or other) code is not available, I might ask an > interviewee to bring some code they'd like to show off/discuss to the > interview. And some organisations will put you through a coding task, > either on the spot or returnable after a day or two. > > Mmh. But if the candidate already pass a certification, then you > wouldn't really need to give a coding task anymore right? Because > you would know that he already pass solving the coding problems in > the exam certification. By giving him another coding task, > eventhough he already pass a certification is sort of not trusting > the candidate. Wouldn't certification really save organization's > time in filtering candidates during interview?
If you use it for filtering out people without the cert, you lose heaps of good programmers who'd rather build something cool than sit an artificial test. It could work if you just let the people with the cert not do the coding section, but that's not much of a win; you still have to have them in to check that they're reasonable human beings you can do good work with, and if you're going to do that, you might as well give them a 10 minute coding check. It's stunning how many people can talk a good game but can't write a simple chunk of code at a whiteboard. (I know it's not a native environment, but you should be able to write FizzBuzz without an editor.) mark --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
