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Re:California bans ITT tech from accepting new students by vacri on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:35PM (#12387348)
My tech lead was bemoaning a round of applicants for a senior position, where some of the candidates couldn't even conceptually 'get' FizzBuzz, let alone code it.
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Re:California bans ITT tech from accepting new students by MiddleEndian on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:52PM (#12387406)
Someone I know (not me, I swear!) was excited to interview an experienced candidate with a fantastic résumé for a test lead position.

Said candidate did not know what a unit test was and could not figure out how to write one, even after the concept was explained.

I have no idea how this could ever happen.

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Re:California bans ITT tech from accepting new students by flukus on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @02:57AM (#12388048)
Were they a manual tester? HR/Recruiters don't seem to know the difference.

Should they know about unit tests though? That's a developers job.

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Re:California bans ITT tech from accepting new students by MiddleEndian on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:47PM (#12448098)
I didn't interview said candidate but I am under the impression that web-based integration tests were their specialty. Still no excuse to not at least be familiar with the concept of unit tests.
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