The closer you get to intelligence tests, the worse trouble you’re in. And I’d presume programming aptitude largely comes from intelligence?
The Holder Justice Department is pressing harder for employers to show that even the academic credentials they largely have used as proxies for intelligence must now show that they are more closely related to the actual requirements of the work.
I guess a ‘programming aptitude test’ at least had the right name to suggest such a correlation!
But as hard as we want to bash business for looking to hire trained employees, rather than take on high-potential trainees and provide the training themselves, we should recognize that hiring by accumulated skill is about the only safe hire in this environment.
Logic would be a good aptitude for the programmer test but perhaps not a qualification to hold public office. {:-)
Of interest is today's statement that 'employers can't find qualified workers' when they can't test.