Fwd: [dgplug-users] Keeping a portfolio of accomplishments - an epiphany
Debayan Banerjee
From: sankarshan <sankarshan....@gmail.com>
Date: 2009/11/10
Subject: [dgplug-users] Keeping a portfolio of accomplishments - an epiphany
To: us...@lists.dgplug.org
Let me pose this question: when you are faced with hiring a newly
minted CS major, how would you assess the person's coding skills?
Would you be going by the candidate's GPA, or the score in a
particular course? How about if you are going to hire a new visual
artist for making icons, images etc for your product? It is not
unexpected to ask the visual artist to provide her portfolio and
following an interview or more, the hiring organization is rest
assured of the skills. Contrast that with the CS major. If the person
has been coding in, say C# or .Net while in school, would that person
be maintaining a portfolio of code written? How would one do with
these proprietary platforms when these platforms are hidden behind
NDAs and such? How would the hiring manager truly assess the skills of
the applicant? If, instead, the applicant had been coding in the open
source arena, when asked, the applicant need only point to where her
code, image, how-tos, etc are kept and let the interviewer figure the
quality.
<http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/166707.html>
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