Hindus and Buddhists, not to mention a variety of other Sino-Indian religions far, far outnumber Jews. Your own straw-man says they're the big three because they all share the same foundation of the Abrahamic religions. How convenient.
"Top of the class, in both atheism and good behavior, come the Japanese. Over eighty percent accept evolution and fewer than ten percent are certain that God exists. Despite its size – over a hundred million people – Japan is one of the least crime-prone countries in the world. It also has the lowest rates of teenage pregnancy of any developed nation.
(Teenage pregnancy has less tragic consequences than violence but it is usually unwanted, and it is frequently associated with deprivation among both mothers and children. In general, it is a Bad Thing.)
Next in line are the Norwegians, British, Germans and Dutch. At least sixty percent accept evolution as a fact and fewer than one in three are convinced that there is a deity. There is little teenage pregnancy , although the Brits, with over 40 pregnancies per 1,000 girls a year, do twice as badly as the others. Homicide rates are also low -- around 1-2 victims per 100,000 people a year.
At the other end of the scale comes America. Over 50 percent of Americans believe in God, and only 40 percent accept some form of evolution (many believe it had a helping hand from the Deity). The U.S. has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy and homicide rates are at least five times greater than in Europe and ten times higher than in Japan."
I think the children programming was a side effect. The real reason was Congress was convinced Communists were incapable of saying "under god". Hence, anyone who complains about it being in the pledge must be a Communist.
your first two sentences tell me everything I need to know about you.
you said yourself: "It may also eliminate some candidates that are actually good, but what technique doesn't?" so it eliminates good candidates, but it's not pass or fail. brilliant.
and therein lies the problem with taking the tests. you never know what the interviewer considers important. completed effort? correct effort? unit tests and comments? time optimized? space optimized? code formatting? asking a bunch of clarification questions before starting?
I completely disagree. Many years ago I was a TA for a Fortran (yeah, that long ago) for non-majors class. A lot of code crossed my desk, and most of the programs were simple and could be done in less than 100 lines. I'd do consults with the students after reviewing their (frequently dreadful) programs, and one day a program crossed my desk that was pure art (and it took less than 30 seconds to determine that). I was looking forward to talking to the student, because she needed to seriously consider changing her major. Well, after talking to her, she confessed that her CS boyfriend had 'helped' her with it, and in talking to her, the extent of the 'help' was pretty obvious, too.
you're on the right track. give them a one night assignment in advance and have them bring it in and explain their implementation and motivations (speed/space) in detail.
they get to develop in whatever environment they are comfortable in (not just IDE, but complete ambient environment). you'll also see if they wrote unit tests, commented their code in a useful way, and have other good habits you might be looking for.
if they heavily borrowed the code and don't understand it, it will be obvious.
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and yet you speak Spanish. curious.
"big three"? wow, that speaks volumes.
Hindus and Buddhists, not to mention a variety of other Sino-Indian religions far, far outnumber Jews. Your own straw-man says they're the big three because they all share the same foundation of the Abrahamic religions. How convenient.
I think you mean complicated.
google atheist crime
it's the first result
"Top of the class, in both atheism and good behavior, come the Japanese. Over eighty percent accept evolution and fewer than ten percent are certain that God exists. Despite its size – over a hundred million people – Japan is one of the least crime-prone countries in the world. It also has the lowest rates of teenage pregnancy of any developed nation.
(Teenage pregnancy has less tragic consequences than violence but it is usually unwanted, and it is frequently associated with deprivation among both mothers and children. In general, it is a Bad Thing.)
Next in line are the Norwegians, British, Germans and Dutch. At least sixty percent accept evolution as a fact and fewer than one in three are convinced that there is a deity. There is little teenage pregnancy , although the Brits, with over 40 pregnancies per 1,000 girls a year, do twice as badly as the others. Homicide rates are also low -- around 1-2 victims per 100,000 people a year.
At the other end of the scale comes America. Over 50 percent of Americans believe in God, and only 40 percent accept some form of evolution (many believe it had a helping hand from the Deity). The U.S. has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy and homicide rates are at least five times greater than in Europe and ten times higher than in Japan."
"Thou art God."
I think the children programming was a side effect. The real reason was Congress was convinced Communists were incapable of saying "under god". Hence, anyone who complains about it being in the pledge must be a Communist.
that 'oustide the realm' part has been shrinking for centuries
executive compensation is tied to your relationships on the compensation committee. nothing more.
Exhibit A: HP
your first two sentences tell me everything I need to know about you.
you said yourself: "It may also eliminate some candidates that are actually good, but what technique doesn't?" so it eliminates good candidates, but it's not pass or fail. brilliant.
your tautology is showing
if you are a competent coder, companies should seek you out
and therein lies the problem with taking the tests. you never know what the interviewer considers important. completed effort? correct effort? unit tests and comments? time optimized? space optimized? code formatting? asking a bunch of clarification questions before starting?
Moose & Squirrel are not yet Disney properties.
stated another way, if you took the SAT today, your score would be worse that when you took it in high school. much worse.
"The metric is: what proportion of the people we hire become effective employees."
you're merely measuring false positives, not false negatives. the remainder is personal bias, and your 'justification' amply demonstrates that.
so it's a panic test, but you give them time enough to not panic?
So you'd be fine if the candidate asked to see the balance in the company's bank account?
lol, you are not alone. the first three days of a new project are total misery for me. then i crush it.
funny that.
it also filters out a company who can't acknowledge their process generates a ton of false negatives
I completely disagree. Many years ago I was a TA for a Fortran (yeah, that long ago) for non-majors class. A lot of code crossed my desk, and most of the programs were simple and could be done in less than 100 lines. I'd do consults with the students after reviewing their (frequently dreadful) programs, and one day a program crossed my desk that was pure art (and it took less than 30 seconds to determine that). I was looking forward to talking to the student, because she needed to seriously consider changing her major. Well, after talking to her, she confessed that her CS boyfriend had 'helped' her with it, and in talking to her, the extent of the 'help' was pretty obvious, too.
no, they're looking for cheap ones
you're on the right track. give them a one night assignment in advance and have them bring it in and explain their implementation and motivations (speed/space) in detail.
they get to develop in whatever environment they are comfortable in (not just IDE, but complete ambient environment). you'll also see if they wrote unit tests, commented their code in a useful way, and have other good habits you might be looking for.
if they heavily borrowed the code and don't understand it, it will be obvious.
which character set and code page?
ever try walking along the 6 inch wide top edge of a curb for as long as you can? not that hard.
now put that curb 100 ft up in the air.