From:
alex@crackpot.org
> Quoting Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com>:
>> The Question is... how does an employer measure Linux expertise
>> objectively?
With great difficulty. (So some of them look for the RHCE label.)
> earning an advanced degree does show a person has
> commitment, and should have a good general understanding of the
> subject. But none of that is a guarantee. I've met a lot of
> knotheads with masters degrees (in many fields).
Yep. There are even a number of complete idiots with PhDs out there.
I've seen them; my father's a professor, so I met a number of ...
less-than-useful people in the department who all had PhDs.
> You find out what people know, and what they're good at, by talking to
> them and finding out about what they've done in the past. It's not
> objective by any means, but I think it's also less artificial than
> trying to establish arbitrary tests or benchmarks.
This is true. However, it's also harder to reduce this to a nice little
number and put it into a happy chart. I have seen researchers, HR
departments, bean counters, and ordinary folks just freeze up and
have a cow when it comes to data that has to be interpreted in a more
time-consuming fashion than "normal" data.
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