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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: software engineers
Message-ID: <4362@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 4 May 89 00:50:51 GMT
References: <854@odyssey.ATT.COM> <39400019@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
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In article <39400019@m.cs.uiuc.edu> render@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
}The Colonel gives a good list of skill requirements for software engineers,
}but I'll be damned if I know how you can judge someone's ability on this kind 
}of stuff unless you've watched them do it.  Debugging is something they all 
}should have done on programming assignments, but how do you rate debugging
}skill?  ...

On one job interview I brought along a sample.  I showed them two listings
of a program I'm currently responsible for.  The first was the one I got
when I took over maintenance of the (extremely buggy) code.  The second is
what the code looks like now (bug free, as far as I know).

Don't know if it helped, but they were on the point of hiring me when the
job got moved from Berkeley to Boston.  Oh, well.

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