On 04/08/2012 06:46 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 8/4/2012 9:03, clipka wrote:
>> are merely there to filter out people who do know the syntax but don't
>> have
>> the slightest clues about algorithm design, performance issues and so
>> forth.
>
> They work pretty well for filtering out people who, amazingly, have been
> programming for 20+ years and can't (for example) write a program to
> print out the first 50 prime numbers. We wouldn't have fizzbuzz if we
> were filtering out people who knew syntax but not algorithms.

When I went to my second interview, the interviewer asked me to take a 
simple SQL test. Before the test, he didn't seem very keen on hiring me. 
After the test, he was absolutely hyped. He was actually sitting there 
having a verbal monologue with himself, out loud, trying to decide how 
he could hire me.

The test was laughably trivial. Anybody who's read Chapter 1 of SQL for 
Dummies would have aced this test. It was literally "do you know what 
SELECT, WHERE, ORDER BY and GROUP do?" And yet, the interviewer told me, 
with a straight face, that "I have people walk in here telling me they 
have 20+ years' SQL experience and they can't do /any/ of that test!"

And that was the day I realised that unlike me, /some/ people must be 
utterly LYING THROUGH THEIR TEETH. O_O

Jesus....

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