I agree with you completely, and yet I'm still for acredidation (however, I'm not for strictly test based, I'd like to see some form of apprenticing)

Besides the ability to learn, I find that personality plays a large role -- how well they work with others, how much they believe in the goals and objectives of the organization, etc.

There may be people who are very good programmers and have the ability to learn a lot, but are rude to everyone they deal with, and care nothing past the appearance of actually doing work, and not the work itself. Others are trying to make themselves look good, rather than making the organization look good.

Finding someone who enjoys, and is passionate about what they do is also useful. (provided that passion doesn't reach the point where they push their values more than the values of the organization).

In reply to Re^2: Evaluating Perl skills set by jhourcle
in thread Evaluating Perl skills set by abhinavvaid

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