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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 [http://meansofproduction.biz/eg/index.php/About_Testing 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 [http://meansofproduction.biz/eg/index.php/About_Testing 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. | ||
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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 a subjective judgment by this fearful and highly negative mindset which lacks the ability to make judgements and/or is really only looking to justify its prejudices. | 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 a subjective judgment by this fearful and highly negative mindset which lacks the ability to make judgements and/or is really only looking to justify its prejudices. | ||
