Roy Tang

Someone on quora asked:

Is there an objective metric for programming skill that would take an hour to measure?

Hahaha no.

Assessing programming skill is highly difficult and subjective. There’s not even an objective metric that would take a year to measure. Sure, in a year’s time you could figure out whether a programmer is “good” or “bad” (already subjective), but even then comparing against other programmers (“better” or “worse”) will still be highly subjective. There’s nothing like say “programmer A is 89%, while programmer B is 72%, so we’ll pick programmer A”