NYCPHP Meetup

[André Pitanga]

Hey Jake McGraw,
> Yes, I was able to answer all of the questions, but
> had I been given the exam, I would have immediately recognized that
> this is not the gig for me.
>   
Why?  We're not trying to break people down with this test, you know?
You sound exactly like the type of candidate we're trying to reach...

> Maybe I'm not in the norm, but I think it's important that you don't
> just hire people because they meet certain preset criteria.

Totally, absolutely agree.  It's hard to standardize this, though...
Multiple choice exams are clearly a poor substitute for subjective 
understanding.

> Ask them about their
> hobbies at home, what interests them (personally I like toying around
> with a Debian install on my NSLU2), I think you'll learn a lot more
> about a person's talents when you find out what they do in their free
> time and what interests them.
>   

This is true.   My most cherished tech project is, for example, 
tinkering with my slackware workstation at home.

So, do you suggest we just scrap the test instead?

-André