Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] The Perl Test...

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 04:24:25PM -0700, Richard Gordon wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:25:23 -0400
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> >From owner-macperl-anyperl@cfcl.com  Mon Jul 12 11:39:46 1999
> I was just wondering if anyone here has taken a Perl screening test
> that's part of some human resources software called Proveit? I'm
> looking at a project that is being staffed by a recruiting agency and
> their client apparently was interested in me, but wanted me to take
> this test first.
> 
> Anyway, I took it this morning and did pretty well. All multiple
> guess and ranging from incredibly easy to some hard stuff that really
> sucked. It wasn't as inane as I anticipated and may even be a sort of
> viable testing mechanism altho they are fascinated with the use of
> file test switches and also included a few things that I thought were
> deprecated.
> 
> So has anyone here run into this or a similar screening program? I
> thought that these things were limited to word processing and the
> like, but would imagine that they'll become prevalent as Perl use
> increases.
> 

Earlier this year, TekMetrics spammed clpmisc about their Perl
certification.  Here's a link to one of the ads:

http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=470226885

I never bothered to take it, but a few other people did.  They posted their
generally unflattering comments in the newsgroup.


Ronald

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