> Track record and conversational interviews are used for hiring lawyers, doctors, MBA and marketing professional.....why are programmers any different ?
Doctors and lawyers have a nonprofit credentialing body that makes them take an industry respected test that is the equivalent of our tech interviews. We have nothing like that in dev work. Would love to see it.
MBA and marketing people rely very heavily on their networks. Those without these networks are at a severe disadvantage, and their prior work is usually very close to the bottom line of a company. Devs could do this kind of stuff more, but don't largely for cultural and organizational reasons.
IQ test would be great if they weren't illegal.
I'm not doing take-home work unless I'm staring down the barrel of not paying my mortgage, and I don't trust anyone showing me there's didn't ask ChatGPT.
Dev work is sensitive and exacting. I want to see the candidate actually do it in front of my face without phoning a friend or copying from github.
Doctors and lawyers take that credential test once, immediately following their graduation from years of fulltime schooling that has been specifically designed to prepare them for that test.
Software engineers are expected to retake our tech interviews, which you describe as equivalent, over and over and over, every time they change jobs.
Doctors and lawyers have a nonprofit credentialing body that makes them take an industry respected test that is the equivalent of our tech interviews. We have nothing like that in dev work. Would love to see it.
MBA and marketing people rely very heavily on their networks. Those without these networks are at a severe disadvantage, and their prior work is usually very close to the bottom line of a company. Devs could do this kind of stuff more, but don't largely for cultural and organizational reasons.
IQ test would be great if they weren't illegal.
I'm not doing take-home work unless I'm staring down the barrel of not paying my mortgage, and I don't trust anyone showing me there's didn't ask ChatGPT.
Dev work is sensitive and exacting. I want to see the candidate actually do it in front of my face without phoning a friend or copying from github.