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Should IT professionals be tested on job interview 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "After having my university degrees, a couple of IT certifications and over ten years of work experience in the industry, with 2-4 years of verifiable employment with each employer, working with wide range of technologies, is it reasonable to ask me to write some test on job interviews? The same companies don't ask other professionals (lawyer, accountant, sales, HR, etc.) to write any kind of "in-house" tests when they are hired. Why are IT professionals treated differently and in a very paternalistic way? More importantly, why do IT professionals accept to be treated less favorably than members of other professions? Should IT professionals start to refuse to be treated as not real professionals?"
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  • NO! (Score:2)

    by omb (759389)
    Unless you are fresh out of school, or applying for a junior position, eg as a 1st line supporter the answer is an un-equivocable _NO_.

    Such tests are normally constructed by or at the behest of PHBs or idiot developers whose idea is to give you a totally broken C++ program, in intentional and un-intentional ways, and ask you what is wrong with it/to fix it. That is useless to determine if a developer can design, code and debug...

    If you think you need to test, then you need to give yourself more time and eff
  • I am a Sr. Network Engineer for a consulting firm and have been performing interviews for new candidates. Time is not the same thing as experience, skill, or talent. I have interviewed people who have spent widly varying amounts of time in the industry, and found that it has little bearing on the quality of the professional. There are many more bad IT professionals than there are good (that's why the good ones make more money). I put all candidates through a fairly rigorous technical interview in order to b

    • Yes I second this, but I think they need to review their tests occasionally. Recently I went through a rigorous test in a job interview and I failed it badly because it included advanced questions which I was not at all familiar with as they were all to do with Windows NT. I was asked by the HR lady after the test, how I think I went. I felt like asking her why the test was still based on Windows NT when I have been working on Server 2000 and beyond for the past 8 years? It was like walking into a time caps

  • Get over yourself, dude. You are not God's gift to anything. You're just another programmer, network monkey, supporter, DBA, or whatever. I reject your premise that other professionals are not tested. They certainly are tested via interviews in as many different configurations as we are. Written tests might be less common for certain professions than others, but I don't accept your conception that no other professionals are ever tested in the same way computer professionals are. On the contrary, many

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