"The general thing that I saw from everyone that I talked to is that no one actually believes that anyone can code. At every stage in the interview process, you’re going to need to prove that your resume isn’t a lie and that you can actually do what you say you can. I find this ludicrous because it is like interviewing an attorney and then saying to him “Please prove that you can cite a Supreme Court precedent”. When did an entire industry of people get pre-judged as lying? Don’t we exist in a country where the default assumption is innocence not guilt?"
This is, IMHO, due to the fact that for years new grads would apply to jobs, and the new job required: 7 years programming in X? YES, 4 years writing scripts in Y? ABSOLUTELY, etc, etc. These new grads all had the attitude of "I will learn that on the job, no one has 7 years in X". And now we have a world of companies that don't think anyone can code. Don't know where they got that idea.
> I find this ludicrous because it is like interviewing an attorney and then saying to him “Please prove that you can cite a Supreme Court precedent”.
They don't need to do that for lawyers because the bar exam handles that (and, for those with traditional legal education, the highly-standardized law school curriculum.) The programming “profession” has neither of those features.
