(This is, in fact, the majority experience among professional programmers in general and the tech industry in specific. The folks who spend a happy career at Google or a bank don’t really end up with lots of OSS to show for it in most cases, either, and they’re legion.)https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/969814787428302850 …
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I don't do programming tests. I leave that to schools. I tell an engineer about a problem that we face in our project and let them answer me with their posible solutions. I don't want the best programmers in the world. I want the best problem solvers.
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And you want to hire a team member - not Batman nor Superman.
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How often do you actually encounter people who’s resume suggests they should be able to code but can’t write fizzbuzz? A lot of old blog posts give a huge number (~40%) but people I’ve asked have seen this only a handful of times in their careers
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I haven’t seen that a lot, and I’m hiring for the feds, so I expect I’m not really seeing the cream of the crop. Seen plenty or irrelevant resumes, but no one with a relevant resume and no coding chops
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just ask your candidate and let them answer you instead of trying to do detective work with code in a repository.