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.
>


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