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? > Anyway you look at it, these days many organisations want to see your > code, rather than rely on a certification. > > Having said that, it is often the rockstar programmers, or at least > guys with quite a bit of experience, telling you that certification is > a waste of time (for instance, Mark Wotton is a very talented > developer who would probably never have needed a certification, and > when he says "anywhere you'd actually want to work", he probably means > anywhere he'd actually want to work.) For a junior non-rockstar > developer, it can be worthwhile for learning and on a resume ... to a > certain extent. > -- http://blog.scrum8.com http://twitter.com/scrum8 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
