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Well, if all you are doing is writing CRUD apps, I don't see how someone like OP is going to be even remotely a good fit. You need a mechanic, you hire a mechanic; you don't go looking for someone who can design a V engine. Funny that you wrote that. I used to be a mechanic, and have modified my share of Porsche 911s. Have a couple that put out above 600 horsepower when measured at the wheels. Almost doubling their factory output. Designed turbocharger systems, intake manifolds (which was difficult due to me not previously knowing much about fluid dynamics , and such), intercoolers, stand alone fuel injection systems, and aerodynamics with composite materials (mostly fiberglass and carbon fiber). If you ask me right now about any of the subjects I would draw a blank. Why? Because I learned how to do something back then for a couple of projects, and then moved on. I did not need to know fluid dynamics for my day job fixing cars. Neither did I need to know much math. Just needed to know how to do the basics that the work required. Which were mostly things learned in the field. Same with programming. I started out writing programs that solved a problem. Then continued with such an approach until hitting a wall due to lack of mathmatical knowledge. Learned whatever needed and moved on. Do I remmeber most of the math I've had to learn? Not really. I don't use it everyday. If I have to use it again, I'll just go to my reference material and refresh my memory. Well, if all you are doing is writing CRUD apps, I don't see how someone like OP is going to be even remotely a good fit. You need a mechanic, you hire a mechanic; you don't go looking for someone who can design a V engine. Problem is that all these tests do is promote the idea that real-world programming inside the matrix is about CS. Its not. Not knowing the answers to the tests created by the OP does not make anyone a bad programmer. Hell, the most productive programmer I know used to work with Visual Basic and Excell/Access all day long. His code served thousands of users and he shipped something out every week. When I asked him about big O notation his face drew a blank. But boy could he knock out software in a couple of days. |