Re: programming contests as a way of finding/evaluating offshore talent...

bruce wrote:

hi.. i'm looking for opinions on the "worth" of programming contests as a way of judging the talent of potential software developers... any thoughts/pros/cons would be appreciated.. and yeah.. i know this is a little off topic.. but some of us here deal with these issues.. if you know of a better email list for this kind of question, let me know, and i'll move it to there.. thanks in advance! -bruce A good programmer is somone who can (mostly) easily find answers to given problems.

You can then start looking on how somone programmed, how good it was tested, how good it's commented and documentated. If a contest is in that way, i think it really has a worth. But the most problems are that the contests are too specific. For example. If a Bank would start something like that, you surely should have a knowledge on how bills and such are done and so on. -- Smileys rule (cX.x)C --o(^_^o) Dance for me! ^(^_^)o (o^_^)o o(^_^)^ o(^_^o)