[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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