Re: Re: Re: Re^2: How to measure Perl skills?

[optimist]

in reply to Re: Re: Re^2: How to measure Perl skills?
in thread How to measure Perl skills?

This is a really nice idea. Because actually, I think the skill you actually want to test for with this is not so much working with incomplete specifications, as much as recognizing them. I've known programmers who would get a project, think they understood what was required, and only after coding for a month realize there was some unspecified but very crucial detail, and how it actually needed to be worked out ended up invalidating a large chunk of what they'd already done.

I guess the best way to get real world ambiguity would be to ask marketing to write up the test problems :-)

[QM]

To paraphrase:

...skill in recognizing incomplete specifications.

Yes, ++...that's what I wanted to say (now that I've seen you say it).

I guess the best way to get real world ambiguity would be to ask marketing to write up the test problems :-)

Umm, you do want to actually hire someone, don't you? Or do you take demonic pleasure in seeing them run screaming from the building? ;-)

BTW, see Dilbert of 21/Mar/2004.