On 10/18/07, Vitaliy <spam@maksimov.org> wrote:
> Four years of going through resumes and conducting interviews convinced me
> that tests are the best and the most objective way to judge a candidate's
> qualifications. Here's an example that tests basic electronics knowlege:
>
> http://scantool.net/pub/electronics_test.pdf


Most of your candidates have graduated just a high school or this test
is for a college or university graduation  ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_school#United_States

thx,
Vasile

>
> This particular one was put together back in 2004, right now I'm working on
> updating it to make it more relevant to what we do (feedback is welcome).
>
> I'm thinking about putting together a couple more tests, to test math and
> software development skills. While math test is easy to write, I'm having
> difficulty coming up with specific problems to evaluate programming skills.
>
> Joel Spolsky has this to say on the subject:
>
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html
>
> Specifically, he suggests the following exercises:
>
> 1. Reverse a string in place
> 2. Reverse a linked list
> 3. Count all the bits that are on in a byte
> 4. Binary search
> 5. Find the longest run in a string
> 6. atoi
> 7. itoa (great, because they have to use a stack or strrev)
>
> The exercises are followed up by a design problem (design a house or a trash
> can or ...)
>
> What do you think of those? In your opinion, what skills are essential for
> embedded developers? What sets them apart from desktop app programmers?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Vitaliy
>
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