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A comment on Ask HN: How would you react to this programming test?.

Re:Ask HN: How would you react to this programming test? by dutchrapley on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @02:39PM (#3076912)
You take the test and do your best. They're not testing how good your code looks, but to see how much effort you're will to make to solve a problem on the spot OR to see if you are someone who will look at the screen dumbfounded and will simply give up.

Being a programmer isn't about knowing a specific language, it's about having the ability to solve problems.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you react to this programming test? by joezydeco on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @04:14PM (#3077331)
"They won't hire you if you can't learn the language on the spot."

Learn the language is a pretty vague criteria. Do they want you to write helloworld? Modify a working routine? Write fibonacci? What will they be doing to test you?

This firm wouldn't happen to be Goldman Sachs, would it?

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Re:Ask HN: How would you react to this programming test? by DanBC on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @02:54PM (#3076980)
Programmers do it on paper in pseudo-code and Jackson Structured Programming charts while coders convert that into a program? (The programmer and coder might be the same person.)
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