Those are good points. To my "developer" mind interviewing has a lot more in common with web page hacking. It is pretty easy to make something that will only work in one browser, but you can follow good rules and make something that will be fantastic in most browsers. That is the basic idea with the pay off being a better job or higher pay by learning and practicing a more effective general interview style.
A few things that are easily fixed:
- People don't read job descriptions
- People don't research the company they send their resume to.
- People don't write a cover letter
- People don't read the emails they get from recruiters or prepare for interviews.
- People act like horny teenagers on the phone, so desperate to be liked that they lose all appeal.
- People act as if they have never seen a white board.
- People don't prep themselves on software design, database queries, etc.
- People don't ask questions of a recruiter or show interest in the position at all (but later hound me via email as if they were an ace in the hole).
There are others of course. But 9 out of ten qualified candidates fail on at least 3 or 4 of these basic marks.
In 1967 the the house estimated that Medicare would cost $9 Billion a year by 1990. The real number would turn out to be $67 Billion.
Every week or so the rate of the oil leak is revised upwards. What was once a spill has turned into a bad spill and now is being called a disaster. This seems consistent with the way most government estimates work.
Ironically it is almost as if we need an independent body with no power to spend money but with complete auditing power to get the public actual numbers.
Is this really solving a problem? I mean CSS itself has issues but wrapping a developer centric toolkit around it doesn't seem to help. In my view CSS is a necessary evil but it is also primarily used by designers. Forcing them to use variables and learn classes and adhere to another syntax would seem counter productive to most of the gains.
A few things that are easily fixed: - People don't read job descriptions - People don't research the company they send their resume to. - People don't write a cover letter - People don't read the emails they get from recruiters or prepare for interviews. - People act like horny teenagers on the phone, so desperate to be liked that they lose all appeal. - People act as if they have never seen a white board. - People don't prep themselves on software design, database queries, etc. - People don't ask questions of a recruiter or show interest in the position at all (but later hound me via email as if they were an ace in the hole).
There are others of course. But 9 out of ten qualified candidates fail on at least 3 or 4 of these basic marks.