[thelist] Hiring Eye Opener - Web Skills Testing (long)

Jay Blanchard jay.blanchard at thermon.com
Tue Feb 26 08:01:01 CST 2002


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>2.      What three tags are required in a web page?
>         a.      <html></html>
>         b.      <head></head>
>         c.      <body></body>

>By the way, head and body tags are not required per the HTML specs.  Title
>is, though.

You're right Josh. I blew this completely, but everyone got this "right".

>Man, would I have hated that interview.  Why didn't you just talk about
>HTML,CSS,Scripting and see what they know and don't, check out some of
their
>work, and maybe put them in front of a computer with notepad to make sure
>that they aren't passing off someone else work as their own.  It seems like
>a lot less pressure on the applicant.  If you know your beans, you should
be
>able to tell if the person across the table knows theirs.

I asked them the questions, they responded. I looked at their work, checked
their source code, found it mostly template driven in an IDE that does the
code for them, for the most part. I did stick them in front of a computer
(see question 18) and gave them a basic text editor and a page to attempt to
replicate. Anyone worth their beans would have scored above a 70. The Q&A
takes 20 minutes, the last part is allowed 30, and there is 10 minutes for a
review.

Jay



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