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We view this closer to CFA, where it's not required (I don't think we'd ever get to this point anyway), but we want a world where many employers do recognize CSPA. > Software Engin…

Our initial goal is to replace the technical phone screen. We are asking companies to guarantee an interview (or skip the phone screen), if they score above a certain threshold. Lo…

Thanks for the valuable feedback! Re: GAN, we tried including ML in the Core exam, but have actually since removed ML since it wasn't working. We may introduce this as part of an M…

Thanks for the feedback! We try to have a good mix of trivial, novice, intermediate, and advanced questions. Some of the multiple choice questions are fact-based and just require a…

Thanks for the tip! Can you elaborate? Do you mean teaching to the test, or something else? There's a whole research field for large scale assessment and evaluation methodologies.

Our third party proctoring service handles the KYC, as well as the LogMeIn. We did some vetting, and they are used by some well-known MOOCs and universities' online courses. It's a…

Currently the Core Exam is 50/50. It's designed for career-readiness. Our Technical Steering Committee is composed of majority of hiring managers, so it's intended to be useful for…

We've found that that is indeed true. The more senior and knowledgeable you are, the most likely the answer is "it depends", because all the nuances and edge cases you know about. …

Thanks! (1) When we retire old exam questions, we will make them available for practice. We're working on creating more study materials! I can't promise anything before April thoug…

Hi HN! We're James and Angel, the founders of CSPA ( https://cspa.io ). The Computer Science Proficiency Assessment (CSPA) is a standardized assessment for software engineers. We f…

It sounds like this happened after I left Crunchyroll in 2015. The process I had in place was definitely not like that :/ Well FWIW, I personally wrote the coding exercise that you…

That's a bug, thanks for reporting it. We don't have it in our bug tracker -- I don't recall CSPA having a Show HN post o_O.

Yep I agree! In fact, about 50% of the people who take the CSPA, do it more for self-evaluation than for employment purposes. You're right, so far most of the test takers are entry…

Re: custom modules. One (arguably) interesting thing we do is to only take the MAXIMUM subscore of all 7 topics and use that component in the composite score, ignoring the other 6 …

Great feedback! We do have a distribution of scores for our latest exam session here: https://medium.com/@cspa_exam/july-2018-cspa-results-509ace9...

Excellent points -- this is something we discuss extensively. After talking with so many employers, we found that each of them look for something different. Adaptive scoring algori…

Great feedback -- thanks! We're constantly improving the CSPA questions, and our latest iteration has quite a few changes. Some of the examples you mentioned assess how detail-orie…

Sorry to hear it was that bad! :( I'd love to hear your experience, especially if I was directly involved -- you can reply or email me anonymously at james@cspa.io. If you know any…