= Grading scale stoles from a Goolge interview
| 10
| You literally have written a book.
| 7 - 9
| Expert, go-to person on this technology.
| 5 - 6
| Solid daily working knowledge. Highly proficient.
| 3 - 4
| Comfortable working with this, have to check manual on some things.
| 1 - 2
| Have worked with it previously but either not much, or rusty.
I copied this grading scale mechanism from a failed <Google> interview ;-)
One problem with it is that I am always very hesitant to put a 5 on anything, who can not look at the documentation?
It is also hard to scope things right. Who can claim to be a C++ or Linux kernel expert, even if you wrote a book about it, since those are such humongous topics?
As a result, I haven't updated this in a while, and things may be out of date.
If your project does something that <interests>[interests me], I can what it takes to contribute. Tell me what I must know, how long I have to learn it, and I'll call you back when I've mastered it.
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