Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Richard Heathfield
Date : Sat Aug 13 2005 06:22 pm

CBFalconer wrote:

> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> 
>> Anyone who rates themselves so highly that they feel insulted by
>> being asked to do an aptitude test... need not apply.
> 
> Wherever such tests appear I usually enjoy them.

Likewise. And I'd rather hire someone who enjoys whatever life throws at 
him...

> But some people
> feel insulted.

.... rather than a Mr Grumpy.

> Forty (mumble) years ago I arrived for a job interview at one
> firm.  I was mistaken for somebody else (I was somewhat thinner and
> less gray than now) and the personnel director first put me in a
> room with what amounted to an IQ test.  I considered it great sport
> and dumped the result on her in under the requisite time.

Asimov's Law of IQ Tests states that, if you finish in half the allocated 
time, you can double your score. :-)


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Richard Heathfield
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