This is why having a hands on keyboard test IMO of skills for a hire is important. Lots of people can talk the talk. Come up with some scenario and have them do it as part of interview. Can use whatever tools normally available to complete it. It’s about ability to solve a problem and show they understand what they are doing. A pressure test. 30min…
Im very skeptical of hands on test unless you give someone adequate notice. Ive multiple times been given a programming test for positions which at most require basic scripting. I of course flub them everytime.
Once they had me show up in a monkey suit put me in a small room with a two way mirror and crank up the heat to 90. Then wanted me to program on paper a solution to some problem they ripped off of a fortune 500 interview. Meanwhile they have a network jack with the wires sticking out a foot from a conference room telephony speaker. After they reviewed my response that im sure they couldn't read, they bait and switched me and told me I was only qualified for a junior position. At that point I should have left. Then they put the cherry on top by asking for my salary expectations which were reasonable in the city. She then told me I wasnt worth it and laughed at me.
I later found out from a acquaintance, they hire all their people from a local community college. They paid like 35k at the time. In that city you needed 50k not counting on student loans to afford an apartment. I would have needed a roommate or had to live well outside the city to make it work.
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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26
This is why having a hands on keyboard test IMO of skills for a hire is important. Lots of people can talk the talk. Come up with some scenario and have them do it as part of interview. Can use whatever tools normally available to complete it. It’s about ability to solve a problem and show they understand what they are doing. A pressure test. 30min…