Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Phlip
Date : Sat Aug 13 2005 05:30 pm

Chris Hills wrote:

> It gives no idea of age, qualifications companies worked for etc.

"seniority"! He meant "seniority"! Not age!

(If Bob Maas weren't so grumpy, his would obviously be an "agism" thread. Of 
course that has _something_ to do with his troubles, especially as he seems 
to have a formal training and experience in _thinking_, which obviously 
can't compete with the modern crop of kids taught to treat their debugger 
like a video game...)

Richard Heathfield wrote:

> At the interview, one thing I'd do is present the applicant with several
> code fragments (probably entire self-contained routines) written or
> modified /that day/ - real code intended for production - and ask the
> applicant to make detailed comments on those code fragments. For each one,
> I'd ask:
>
> o  What does it do?
> o  What is good about it?
> o  What is bad about it?
> o  How could it be fixed?
>
> The fragments would be selected in such a way as to maximise the good
> applicant's opportunity to demonstrate his knowledge of all the required
> skill areas, whilst maximising the chance of exposing those who claim
> knowledge they simply don't have.

I would invite them to hit http://thedailywtf.com

The great thing about the flabbergasted reactions in those citations is the 
authors don't even bother to explain the problem in newbie terms. So a job 
applicant should be invited to explain several different citations there in 
simple newbie terms.

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  Phlip
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