Assessing skills of individuals is required. Be it academics, interviews, courses \/ certifications and so on.<\/p>\n
IMHO most assessments are not optimally designed which creates a lot of problems\u2026<\/p>\n
My biggest issue: assessments are designed not based on what is practically done on a day to day basis, instead on theoretical, trick questions which are far from practical application.<\/p>\n
Most of the time, that\u2019s because perhaps these theory-based ones are easy to design and ensure you\u2019ve \u2018read\u2019 the text.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t endorse this even for academics, but in interviews especially I think these are just nonsense.<\/p>\n
Judge the person on what practical value they will bring, or value they have delivered before.<\/p>\n
Oh, BTW, I add test like \u2018codility\u2019 in this category too (when was the last time you needed to solve O(N Log N) for work???)<\/p>\n<\/div>