Now I tell candidates on the spot whether they pass or fail at the end of the phone interview. I give them feedback on what they did well and what they did poorly. I'm very candid with them.
Sounds worth giving it a go.
On choice and power of programming languages, role of R&D and differences between the work of programmers and civil engineers.
Three years later, I'm still wondering: why do people who can't write a simple program even entertain the idea they can get jobs as working programmers? Clearly, some of them must be succeeding. Which means our industry-wide interviewing standards for programmers are woefully inadequate, and that's a disgrace.
Jeff Atwood's quest against non-programming programmers continues.
So, Jeremy, tell me a little about yourself.Because they'll roll and they can't fall down the hole. And because manholes are round.
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