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  • L Lost User

    Hi Scott!! What is your email address? I wanna send my resume to you. Rather Anonymous till we discuss it further. ;)

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    Steve Maier
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    On teh bottom of his message there is a link to email him. This might be only available if you logon tho, but you can send an email to Scott from there and it will not show up on the forum. Steve Maier, MCSD

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    • L Lost User

      Hi Scott!! What is your email address? I wanna send my resume to you. Rather Anonymous till we discuss it further. ;)

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      Awesome! it's scott@proquest-tech.com Scott! Put the big rocks in the glass jar first!

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      • L Lost User

        Hi Scott!! What is your email address? I wanna send my resume to you. Rather Anonymous till we discuss it further. ;)

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        Scott@proquest-tech.com Thanks! Scott! Put the big rocks in the glass jar first!

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        • M Masaaki Onishi

          Hello, the codegurus around the world. ;) I sympathize with your situation. It looks like that you took the classes while you have another full time job. In my case, I try to get the part time job as the programmer as much as possible while I go to my school. As a result, I realized how different the code of the commercial level is. When you as well as the other people including me write the code for the private life, these codes are so subjective one. The professtional programmer has to read the other people code, and sometimes this is so frustrated to me partly because the coder has more skill than I. Also, if my company assigns me the new project, I'm always thinking if I can do this? If I can't do this, my company will fire me? :(( So, I sometimes feel that the professtional programmer seems not to be the easy job. X| Have a nice day! -Masaaki Onishi-

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          Mr Morden
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          A programmers skill level is not proportional to the complexity of his code. Most of the time the inverse is true. It takes more skill to write simple, clear, readable code that works than it does to write complex, unreadable code.

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          • T Troy Marchand

            I do not understand how ensuring that someone who can "talk the talk" can actually "walk the walk" will drive them away. Just because someone says that they are a great developer does not mean they are... otherwise I would have more 'great developers' than I would know what to do with :) The programming test that I give should not take a competent developer more than an hour to complete. If it does take a developer a day to write it then there is a problem :) I do not believe that this would be considered jumping through hoops. If a developer is unwilling to put any effort into getting a job (other than mass emailing a resume), then I am unwilling to reciprocate (as you mention it is a two-way street.) Also many companies give theoretical programming tests which I disagree with. I give out a test that is a small project, which mimics real life work. As for understanding a developers position, I to am a developer, and I treat my employees (and potential employees) the way I would want to be treated. How would you go about finding out if someone is actually competent... trust me the 'hire and hope' method does not work. -- It may not be perfect, but it works --

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            Erik Funkenbusch
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            You said that only 20% of the people you gave the test to, ever returned it. You may see this as "weeding out the people that can't pass it", but to me it looks more like many could be competant people just saying "screw this, I can be treated this way at my existing job". Your previous discussion didn't say much about the "test", but given that you found it quite easy to discount people that passed it as not having done it very well or paying enough attention to detail, one would think that spending a great deal of time making it perfect would be what you are looking for. As I said, I understand your desire to weed out the incompetants. The way you phrased things looked very suspicious to me, and I was simply commenting that if it were ME and I was asked what you were suggesting, I would have serious reservations about the working environment of someone that felt they needed to give such a test. I'm not saying that someone should not put effort into finding a job, but I think asking all your potential employees to jump through hoops is just a form of power trip. I think it is common courtesy to show as much respect to your candidates as they should show to you. You're no giving them the priveledge of working for you, you're cultivating a relationship. I've also hired quite a few people, and had to fire very few. I find that discussion is often enough to give a very good feel for an individuals performance. There are many ways to "feel out" a potential employee, but the way I find most effective is to put them at ease by being friendly and discussing non-work related things. Then when I move into the technical questions, they are more apt to give me the answers they believe rather than what they think I want to hear. I once finished an interview with the candidate saying "So, when are we going to start the interview?", to which I concluded, "You just completed it". So many times the interview process is about power and control. The interviewer feels they must put the interviewee "in their place". To me, it's all about asessing how someone will work in real life, and the only way to know that is to make sure they act like they would in real life.

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            • S Steve Maier

              On teh bottom of his message there is a link to email him. This might be only available if you logon tho, but you can send an email to Scott from there and it will not show up on the forum. Steve Maier, MCSD

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              Lost User
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              Thanks. :)

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              • S Scott

                Awesome! it's scott@proquest-tech.com Scott! Put the big rocks in the glass jar first!

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                Lost User
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                Thanks Scott. :)

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