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Re:Hiring programmers (2005) by radu_floricica on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @11:34AM (#703883)
Three candidates out of 30 who managed to finish the contest is worth raising an eyebrow.
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Re:Hiring programmers (2005) by RiderOfGiraffes on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @11:39AM (#703896)
That doesn't surprise me at all. Out of 15 candidates for a position advertised as "C, C++ and Python Programmer", only 4 could actually write a "FizzBuzz" program in any of the given languages.
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Re:Hiring programmers (2005) by ja27 on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @01:52PM (#704199)
Heck, if we advertise for a Unix C++ programmer, I think half the resumes we get don't even show C++.
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