| I've been on the interviewer side in the past when this was the setup: People are given a basic coding challenge. On the level of "parse roman numerals" or similar with some tests, standard kind of basic things that rosetta code will list implementations of in every possible language. The code was to be written in any language the person wanted. This was not timed, and was to be done at home. 50%, easily, didn't work. Many did not compile, or were totally incomplete. One was a broken implementation in C# submitted as a single function pasted inside a word document. Only one person out of I think 20 sent a zipped copy of all the code, a short instruction of how to actually run it, and included some tests. After that, I started to understand just why these kind of little programming tasks were given. > And don't get me started about Python. Lest I bring up the Google-Motorola "I LUV Python heart heart heart" guy who didn't understand the difference between a list & dict. Hah. I've had someone who didn't know the difference between local and global variables trying to come in as a fairly high rate contractor. |