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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 1915 days ago
One of my most serious laughs was a programming aptitude test designed by a psychologist that I could see never got past basic Fortran.

It tested your ability to program basic loops, but I could see an algorithm that would have enveloped the loops,but the test had no questions about that.

So what do you want out of a developer? How about an ability to dig into the problem domain and come up with an economic way to produce a good solution from the available data?