Originally Posted by asianthug_ak47
If there are 30 multiple choice questions on the test, is it better to:
a) solve as many as you can without double checking your work and pick C for the rest.
b) solve each problem carefully as fast as you can and double check your work.
c) just pick C and pray
Anyone working in large corporation will know that it takes a lot of time to finish a project because triple checking result and documenting all work are 2 very critical steps in a project. I know a few guys, who are fast with programing and scriptings, but their work is so shotty that it serves noone else any purpose. That means people have to repeat the same work over and over again because someone doesn't make their programs easy to read, understand, and debug so that they can be used as TOOLS and PLATFORMS for the rest of the company. Lockheed Martin has a very good standard for documenting their work. I deal with a few of their projects and I am impress of the level of detail they provide. They also charge a lot of each piece of code.
any respectable company looks at at least three criteria points for hiring applicants in a professional job:
1: employee's personal apperance (if he or she looks professional, if he or she can act in a professional manner). this criteria is usually easily met.
2: educational background: degrees, where they got the degree(s), grades, standardized test scores, etc
3: work experience: previous employer's opinions on applicant as an employee, what kind of work he or she did, internship work, a portfolio of work that was done by the applicant, etc.
so yea, a respecable employer
may be impressed by grades and test scores, but they will always check out the work done by the applicant. i'd say that the thrid criteria listed right there is the most important out of the three.