Linux Certification
Leo Mauler
webgiant at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 26 00:34:41 CDT 2005
--- Jack <quiet_celt at yahoo.com> 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.
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