On 25.06.24 08:01, Noon van der Silk wrote:
I would also suggest it's fairly bold to claim that this is in any way "objective" insofar as no exams are "objective", they merely test the subjective interests, experiences, and skills of the setters, and, crucially, an ability to succeed in exam conditions, which *many* people struggle with, for an extremely large variety of reasons. Your Haskell may be very different from my Haskell.
Still, it's objective in the sense that anybody who comes with a certificate has successfully memorized the information in the course. It's also proof that the candidate had enough interest in Haskell to invest significant time for obtaining a certificate. It's a minimal foundation that employers can assume so they don't have to check that themselves, they can concentrate on other aspects, and it's a known stable foundation, minimal as it may be. Nothing of that is a full picture of a candidate's developer personality, but nothing is anyway. HTH Jo