--- Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
--- Jack [email protected] wrote:
--- Leo Mauler wrote:
Don't know much about this being a good way to find out about prospective employees. Some of us are very good at bluffing: about four years ago I had never touched Microsoft Excel, and yet I scored 88% on the test for it for some temp agency.
If you scored 88% on a programming test, I certainly wouldn't hire you. That would mean that someone would have to fix more than 10% of your code. Not an exciting prospect.
I only mentioned it because at the time, I actually scored higher than most of their applicants (who may well have been bluffing, poorly, as well).
Naturally a hands-on programming test would be much more difficult.
I didn't mean to imply that 88% is a bad score for using excel, or that you weren't worth your salt. I really only meant that it may not be hard to fake out a test, but if you reject anyone below say 97%, you've got a reasonable certainty that the person knows the material. Or is one really great guesser, in which case, the person might be worth hiring anyway. Anyone that can bluff a test and get a 97% on a test ought to be bright enough to handle the job at hand. ;')
Brian D.
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