| Date: | Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:36:29 -0500 |
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| Reply-To: | Bob_Abelson@HGSI.COM |
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| From: | Bob_Abelson@HGSI.COM |
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| Subject: | Re: SAS Certification |
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I have to agree with Jules on this. Most of the SAS Certificate holders
that we interviewed could not answer very basic SAS questions.
Bob Abelson
HGSI
240 314 4400 x1374
bob_abelson@hgsi.com
"Jules Bosch" <jbosch1@OPTONLINE.NET>
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02/13/2008 08:19 PM
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Subject
SAS Certification
A few years ago on a consulting assignment with a pharmaceutical firm, I
was
asked to interview prospective SAS programmers. Over a three or four week
period, I interviewed maybe ten candidates. Most of the questions I used
in
my scripted interview document came from the SAS-L archives.
What surprised me was that most of the candidates could not answer some of
the most fundamental SAS questions. For example, the numeric value of the
SAS date Jan 01, 1960. Nor could anyone of the interviewees, for example,
describe the _N_ automatic data step variable.
What surprised me even more was the fact that most of the candidates were
SAS V8 certified.
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