Re:Hiring technical talent: An exercise in clarity, patience...
by ryandrake on Friday May 13, 2022 @05:14PM
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I think OP is talking about people who literally can't code, yet list a track record of 10 years successfully writing C++ code on their resume. And you need someone who can write code--not someone who can write about their coding accomplishments. We've all had that experience of reading someone's resume full of accomplishments that would have required the candidate to write code, then sitting down with them and they can't even come up with a for loop.
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Re:Hiring technical talent: An exercise in clarity, patience...
by jjav on Saturday May 14, 2022 @02:47AM
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> I think OP is talking about people who literally can't code, yet list a track record of 10 years successfully writing C++ code on their resume.
> then sitting down with them and they can't even come up with a for loop
If someone has been writing succesful production code in C++ for ten years, there is zero possibility they can't write a for loop. I hope you do realize that is not actually possible.
What is extremely likely, is that they get subjected to a random algorithm memorization puzzle question for something they've never seen before under the extreme stress of an interview and then the interviewer extrapolates from that to assume "they can't write a for loop".