points by paganel 3 days ago | 0 comments
> Why would you refuse that, when applying to a job?
Not the OP, but from a certain point on (I'd say 3-5 years into one's career, I'd say maybe even earlier) school-type tests become quite ridiculous, as in real-life programming/development has nothing to do with how people are graded in school.
[–] howunfortunate 3 days ago
[–] paganel 3 days ago
This has not been my experience. Granted, I’ve never worked for a FAANG-like company, but in my 20 years of writing code for a living I’ve seen a lot more unknown unknowns in my day-to-day work compared to what school had prepared me to handle.
If by "nothing to do with" you mean "uncorrelated", then this is very trivial and empirically untrue. There are a lot of tests that correlate with peer and manager-rated performance in software development (and many other roles).
Even the dumbest most ad hoc unrelated tests will have nonzero correlations, and the well-studied principled ones much more so.
The better argument is that tests are high effort and can feel demeaning. But it's not productive to pretend they don't work.