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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 "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've posted 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 made it available as free software (currently a stub of a serious app). 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 a ludicrous tech-out (the CEO was out of the country) replete with various misdirections and other comic elements (e.g. stressing "SORT" when "MAP" was meant, assuming that talking about the simplest function and writing f(0) would imply a table look up, etc. The cherry was to be asked about Dynamic Programming, and find the questioner used it as a trick question having apparently only superficial knowledge of it. | 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've posted 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 made it available as free software (currently a stub of a serious app). 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 a ludicrous tech-out (the CEO was out of the country) replete with various misdirections and other comic elements (e.g. stressing "SORT" when "MAP" was meant, assuming that talking about the simplest function and writing f(0) would imply a table look up, etc. The cherry was to be asked about Dynamic Programming, and find the questioner used it as a trick question having apparently only superficial knowledge of it. | ||
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. | 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. This was the first time in more than 10 years I seriously took a test it made manifest that it's utterly futile, pointless to do so at this point in my career. Any objectivity in a coding is going to be overridden by the subjective judgment by he fearful and highly negative mindset of this particular kind of culture which lacks the ability to make judgements and/or is really only looking to justify their prejudices. | ||
I have in the past used the expression "local cultures of mediocrity and failure" and that is not exactly what fits this because a certain kind of painfully narrow excellence is evinced. But in short, if you have this mindset please pass on my candidacy and don't try to talk me into taking your test and entering a process like this because I'm just not going to. | I have in the past used the expression "local cultures of mediocrity and failure" and that is not exactly what fits this because a certain kind of painfully narrow excellence is evinced. But in short, if you have this mindset please pass on my candidacy and don't try to talk me into taking your test and entering a process like this because I'm just not going to. | ||
