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Beautiful point Steve.

Critical thinking is certainly a talent that is taken for granted, and often
missed in the standard interviewing process. Although workspace cleanliness
and code hygeine is 'nice-to-have' I'd trade it for the guy that I could
drop an emergency project on, and is going to respond with a clear
communication of several optional solutions.

A critical thinker is also much more likely to learn new concepts and
processes, which is invaluable, particularly within software development,
where the race is run so bleeding edge from time to time.

 I would have to also echo Mr. Merlo's comments. Competency is crucial, but
that does too depend on the area and software. For instance I would probably
be more critical of a C++ heads-down coding position than I would for a PHP
UI builder position. hope that make sense, casue that's what it is, my two
cents. =D

-Ed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Manes" <smanes at magpie.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Questions to ask at a job interview?


> Ben Sgro (ProjectSkyline) wrote:
> > Now, the position being filled is that of an entry level programmer.
> > I do not expect this person to be well trained in PHP/MySQL,
> > but they must have a pretty strong understanding of programming
> > methodologies in general (they are a college grad - CIS).
> >
> > So, again, what are some good metrics I can use to test these
> > perspective employees?
>
> Start with general logic tasks at the white board, like reversing a
> string in place.  Then inverting all the words in a sentence like "I
> really hate taking tests", then reversing the letters in all the words
> in a sentence.  This should be done language-agnostic (no strrchr() or
> reverse()).  What I'm mostly interested in learning is how the applicant
> problem-solves.
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