Re: /400 skills test

["Valene Williamson" <vwilliamson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Years ago when I applied to a small consulting company, they asked me to come in
on a Saturday and take a programming test.  It was not a list of questions like
when I took the certification, but they asked me to code from scratch a one
screen simple file inquiry.  Enter a customer number, bring up customer info.
There were 6 or 7 taking the test that day.  The man who would eventually become
my project manager was there supposedly working on his current project.  It
didn't dawn on me until later that he was staying at the printer a lot.  When
one of us printed out a compile listing, he would take it off the printer and
lay aside.  Of course, this gave him a good view of everyone's code while doing
so.  Later I had to demo my program for the branch manager to show him it
worked.  Even though it had a couple of bugs still, they made me an offer right
then.  I guess they decided they got a good idea of what I was capable of.

Valene M. Williamson
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Glazer's Wholesale Distributing


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