Certification is largely pointless, imho. The only thing it proves is that you were willing to spend some time and money to get certified, which means you're serious about getting a job and not just a casual programmer. It says very little about actual knowledge - tests can be studied for and passed in a week and the material totally forgotten in another month or two.

The important question is not so much whether the candidate knows the exact right techniques for the job already (rare and expensive), but rather how good he is at learning new things. Assign all the candidates something typical but complicated to program and pick your employee based on who comes up with the most creative / elegant solution, regardless of how that solution was arrived at.

Note however - anyone who codes a solution without use strict / use warnings / modules should be automatically rejected, unless his code is simply too brilliant to pass up (he writes your entire search engine in five lines of code).

In reply to Re: Evaluating Perl skills set by TedPride
in thread Evaluating Perl skills set by abhinavvaid

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