One of the questions asked the applicant to write a bubble sort in C.
I don't know Bubble Sort. I have seen it some time, years ago, but I don't care much about learning algorithms by heart, so I don't remember how it goes. I wouldn't recognize a Bubble Sort if it hit me in the face. Neither would I recognize a Quicksort.

Does that make me a bad programmer? According to your test, I am.

Perhaps your candidate was not being a smartass. Maybe he was like me, doesn't know any sorting algorithms by name, but he does know enough to write a program that works. So maybe he was just trying to make the best of a poor situation, trying to write any sorting function that works. And he succeeded.

And you threw away a likely very fine candidate, just because he doesn't think like you. Instead, you think you have him all figured out. Shame on you.

But I could be wrong, thinking he might have been thinking like me.

In reply to Re^2: Need crash course in PERL! by bart
in thread Need crash course in PERL! by cbrackin

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