Re: Testing job applicants

[hnlute@optcamel.com (Howard N. Lute)]

In article <37ced3ff@195.34.192.13>, ruffrecords@geocities.com 
says...
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> Jerry Freedman Jr wrote in message <7qjlnv$r1l$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
> >In article <FG7B1C.FL0@world.std.com>,
> >  jkenton@world.std.com (Jeff Kenton) wrote:
> >>
> >> Note:  this was the thread about "Not enough real programmers", but I
> >> have hijacked it.
> >>
> >
> >I have met a *LOT* of people with Computer Science/Engineering degrees
> >who have told me "Yeah, I am getting this degree, but I really don't
> >want/like to program".
> >
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> This may be controversial but as a rule we find people with computer science
> degrees don't make good software engineers.  This is at least in part
> because nearly all our developments are cost sensitive embedded
> applications.  We find computer scientists have insufficient appreciation of
> the hardware aspects.
> 
> Ian
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I who was in-depth taught in inner workings of many models of 
IBM, Control Data CPU's and peripherals always felt that the 
programmers I met knew only what they wanted as output and NOT 
how the machine actually produced a result. The only 
programmers that really KNEW anything useful about the 
hardware were assembly and machine language people, all the 
Fortran, Cobol, Link, etc. etc. hadn't a clue.
friend,
Lute
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