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Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews?
An anonymous reader writes "After having my university degrees, a couple of IT certifications, and over ten years of work experience in the industry, with 2-4 years of verifiable employment with each employer, working with a wide range of technologies, is it reasonable to ask me to take some test on a job interview? The same companies don't ask other professionals (lawyer, accountant, sales, HR, etc.) to submit to any kind of in-house tests when they are hired. Why are IT professionals treated differently and in such a paternalistic way? More importantly, why do IT professionals accept being treated less favorably than members of other professions? Should IT professionals start to refuse to be treated as not real professionals?"
Because unlike Accountants, Lawyers, etc we actually have to work for a living...
If we're bad then stuff just doesn't get done. If an accountant is bad they still get $100k a year.
Doctors still have to prove themselves multiple times just to be able to get into the interview. Years and training and testing.
I like to think of us more like Doctors than professional bureaucrats.
As a consultant, I consider myself part of the world's oldest profession. After all:
I charge an extortionate rate
I'll be whatever you want me to be
I spend a lot of time in hotel rooms
I have a pimp that gives me a fraction of what I make and sends me to do things that I really don't want to do
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May the Maths Be with you!
Thank you, NEXT!
How 'bout we start employing people based on what they claim, not what they can do? Sounds good to me.
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You failed the coding test, but you nicely placed blame on others. Please move to the line for management interviews.
"However, I'm sure I'd fail on any Java test or C test."
I thought that, too, but now I'm convinced you'd do okay. I took a test recently for Java (the company insisted, even though Java wasn't on my resume at all, and I relented), and I scored "Master - Can mentor others" even though I've never done anything serious in Java (maybe played around with it a few years ago). For someone who knows C-family languages, the tests are cake. I guess they're only intended to weed out those who truly know nothing at all.
Property law should use #'EQ, not #'EQUAL.
Even worse, he didn't even see if his code would compile (preview) before checking in (submitting) his work. Tisk tisk tisk.
Needless to say, I think she will make a far better lawyer than half the lawyers in the United States.
So you're saying she'll be an average lawyer?
Does that mean... but what about... Does that mean my MCSE isn't worth anything?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
It's worth something, to someone, but you probably don't want to work for them anyway.
Correct. And any test that doesn't accept pseudocode is retarded.
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