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A recent experience absolutely assured I will never take anybody's test under any circumstances. In a vindication of my long screed in these pages after successfully taking one test and thinking we were beyond that stage, I was subjected to a vicious adversarial tech-out and presented with a second test to implement a core functionality in the line of biz of | A recent experience absolutely assured I will never take anybody's test under any circumstances. In a vindication of my long screed in these pages after successfully taking one test and thinking we were beyond that stage, I was subjected to a vicious adversarial "can you read my mind" type tech-out and presented with a second test to implement a core functionality in the line of biz of the startup in question. I will post the first test on the original mod_perl CMS page with the older ones shortly and the second has been posted to github (*Cache Manager") where I will refine it and make it available as free software. There was a poignancy in this because I had a pretty good rapport with CEO of the start-up and obviously I must have done well on the first test or they wouldn't have flown me cross country for what turned out be the nasty tech-out (the CEO was out of the country). | ||
This absolutely confirmed that people taking this kind of mentality and myself are like cats and dogs, and the utter futility of trying to accommodate them. That the work one does is far too hard, requires far too much effort, and provides far to little compensation for the value delivered was the original reason for the policy. It's manifest in this recent experience that it's utterly futile, pointless as well, any objectivity in a coding is going to be overridden by the subjective judgment of the testers. | This absolutely confirmed that people taking this kind of mentality and myself are like cats and dogs, and the utter futility of trying to accommodate them. That the work one does is far too hard, requires far too much effort, and provides far to little compensation for the value delivered was the original reason for the policy. It's manifest in this recent experience that it's utterly futile, pointless as well, any objectivity in a coding is going to be overridden by the subjective judgment of the testers. | ||
