Originally posted by Jeremy Nicholson:
Personally, I have found that personal recommendations have been our best source and as such we encourage Developers to increase their people network outside of the organisation.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
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1) Should the test involve only those topics which are required for the job? or should test include theoretical aspects too? to test the background?
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Originally posted by Arjun Shastry:
Some companies conduct series of tests.These tests include the topics which are necessary for that job.But many times,people find that these tests don't have any practical significance.For example,test invloving questions of Computation Theory,Turing machine etc.and so people without academic "touch" tend to fail.
1) Should the test involve only those topics which are required for the job? or should test include theoretical aspects too? to test the background?
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Regards Pete
neither test so much as got me an interview, but a year or 2 later the outfit that gave me the first test ended up hiring me. As part of the OS System Programming team.
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