Brandon Savage's Blog: Why Coding Tests Are A Bad Interview Tech...

Courtesy PHPDeveloper.org  Mon, 11/02/2009 - 19:59

Brandon Savage has a suggestion for those interviewing developers for positions at their company - forget the coding test.

One thing I've noticed in hunting for a job recently is the number of companies that insist that you write them a code sample to spec.

Not just any code sample, but a fully functional, complete application. This is absurd, for several reasons.

He suggests that, while submitting example code or taking a test...


 

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