From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-12-10T23:24:50+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby certification

2007/12/9, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>:
> Let me try to state this a different way. We recently had someone who
> interviewed where I work and he claimed to be (among other things) a
> Ruby expert. Since I *am* a Ruby expert, I was involved in the
> interviews with this guy. (We've since hired him, because he checked
> out.)
>
> But you know the very first thing that I did? I Googled him. I was
> able to find examples of code that he'd written (not Ruby, but other
> languages). I went into the interview armed with knowledge about him
> far better than any certificate would provide.

But then again, you're probably also an *interviewing expert*.  There
are probably more people around interviewing whose Google-Fu would not
have brought them that far. :-))

Cheers

robert

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