Re: Testing job applicants

["Steven R. Wheeler" <swheeler@xpert.net>]

Ruff Records wrote:
 
> 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.

Having spent most of my software career working on fairly low-end
embedded systems,
and speaking with respect to a fairly small sample size, I'd have to
agree with this.
We could have just had a run of "the bad ones," but we've had better
experience with
people with engineering degrees (or no degrees but a music/languages
background) who
are self-taught as programmers.

- wheels