Re:Offshoring is not making UK computer scientists largest u...
by ig1 on Monday September 27, 2010 @11:22AM
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I disagree, I've been at a company where we had ~1500-2000 applications for graduate developer roles, so we had access to a substantial percentage of CS graduates. About 20% got through CV screening (which is basically have anything on your CV to show you're competent - good uni, an internship, challenging uni projects, open source projects, etc).
Of that 20% most of them failed to be able to handle fairly basic CS questions (implement a linked list, describe how hash-maps work, reverse a string, basic algorithm questions, fizzbuzz, basic language questions on a language the candidate claimed to know). About 5% were able to pass this stage, and of that 5% we made offers to most of them.
We weren't expecting people with a deep grounding in practical programming, we were expecting a decent knowledge of CS and some basic ability to actually produce code. There just aren't enough competent CS graduates on the market.
Of that 20% most of them failed to be able to handle fairly basic CS questions (implement a linked list, describe how hash-maps work, reverse a string, basic algorithm questions, fizzbuzz, basic language questions on a language the candidate claimed to know). About 5% were able to pass this stage, and of that 5% we made offers to most of them.
We weren't expecting people with a deep grounding in practical programming, we were expecting a decent knowledge of CS and some basic ability to actually produce code. There just aren't enough competent CS graduates on the market.