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== The End == | |||
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 he startup in question. I will post the first test in this space shortly and the second has been posted to github 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. | |||
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 you test and entering a process like this because I'm not going to. | |||
== Update == | == Update == | ||
I recently stumbled into a tech-out for a cushy corporate job so doing an update. I'm a general contractor and sets of trick questions for a specific lang or set of packages are likely to trip me up if it's a reasonably good attempt to do so. I try to stay away from work where that's the mentality and I think more and more people are taking a bigger picture/higher level approach but I would have proceeded with tech out by hr proxy anyway because it was a large cap entity. Adding this blurb in case I stumble into another, so I can inform and refer with brevity. [[User:Root|Root]] 12:06, 24 October 2011 (UTC) | I recently stumbled into a tech-out for a cushy corporate job so doing an update. I'm a general contractor and sets of trick questions for a specific lang or set of packages are likely to trip me up if it's a reasonably good attempt to do so. I try to stay away from work where that's the mentality and I think more and more people are taking a bigger picture/higher level approach but I would have proceeded with tech out by hr proxy anyway because it was a large cap entity. Adding this blurb in case I stumble into another, so I can inform and refer with brevity. [[User:Root|Root]] 12:06, 24 October 2011 (UTC) | ||
