[eldondev]

> I'm sorry but a year+ at those companies proves you've provided at least something of worth to them. Not sure about that. I think there are lots of "well known companies" where a good bluffer can relabel themselves and bounce around enough that nobody realizes they haven't got anything to offer.

>We wax poetic about DRY yet you're gonna ask me to repeat myself? Some people can wax poetic pretty effectively without being effective at implementation. I've written a 1 line fizzbuzz python generator in less than 2 minutes. If one is too arrogant/uncompromising to take the two minutes to satisfy this (if asked), or unable to turn it into something interesting ("This is done with generators. I might never do it this way in practice, but the question you asked me was so mind-numbingly boring I had to do it this way to entertain myself"), then one probably won't work that well on an effective team.

[w0rd-driven]

I forget that in most "well known companies" they are much larger in size and people can easily hide behind others in such a place. That's where my ignorance comes in. I've been only part of smaller shops where if you aren't producing, you absolutely do not last.

Yet I easily forgot the person with a masters degree that could not pass, was hired anyway, and subsequently fired 3 days later for not improving an iota. I think my frustration is that people like this exist, forcing companies to give the same test to weed them out with no way to skip the question if you can faithfully prove you're not that person.