Source Control with Git: Everything You Need to Know When Assessing Source Control with Git Skills

Source Control with Git

This page is about the skill Source Control with Git, which is one of more than 40 technical skills you can assess on Alooba. The Source Control with Git skill is about the basic knowledge of git and how to use it for version control. Professional source control has been a well understood topic in software engineering for more than a decade, and it is finally permeating the data science community. In order to productionize models, data scientists and data engineers in particular need to understand source control. Participants will need to understand when and why to use source control, how to identify bugs in commit history, the basics of merging, forking and pulling code etc. Participants will need to be able to perform basic git commands to solve problems too.

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What types of things are included in the Source Control with Git skill?

The Source Control with Git skill assesses knowledge of topics like Blame, Committing, Debugging with Git, Fetch, Forking, Ignoring, Merging, Remote Repositories, Reverting Changes & Workflow.

Which types of roles require good Source Control with Git skills?

Source Control with Git is a commonly assessed skill for roles such as Software Engineer, Backend Engineer, Front End Engineers, Data Engineers & Data Scientists.

Why should we test someone’s Source Control with Git skills?

A critical part of running an ethical hiring process that’s fair and meritocratic is having objective measures of someone’s skills. Why does ethical hiring matter? Simple - it helps you hire the best person for the job.

Robert Half reported that the cost of a bad hire is on average 15-21% of the employee’s salary.

What was the most common reason for mis-hires? A lack of the right technical skills. This a true hiring own-goal, as it’s so easily preventable through a valid, thorough skills assessment.

So, if your role requires a candidate to know Source Control with Git well, you can validate that with Alooba Assess.

Can I test my current team’s Source Control with Git skills too?

Yes you sure can. You can assess their skills using Alooba Growth.

Which tests can I find the Source Control with Git skill in?

Source Control with Git can be assessed through the Concepts & Knowledge test & Free Response test. The Free Response Test includes different answer options like written responses, video answers and diagram answers.

Can I add my own Source Control with Git questions?

Yes, you can add your own Source Control with Git questions via the question bank.

How do I get access to Alooba to test Source Control with Git skills?

Feel free to reach out and book a quick discovery call here.

How difficult is the Source Control with Git skill?

Each question on Alooba is categorized by difficulty - Easy, Medium & Hard. You can set the difficulty level to whatever you like by picking and choosing the questions that you want to include.

What else can I assess with Alooba?

You can also assess someone’s intelligence, their personality type and critical soft skills, like communication.

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Shen Liu, Logickube (Principal at Logickube)

We get a high flow of applicants, which leads to potentially longer lead times, causing delays in the pipelines which can lead to missing out on good candidates. Alooba supports both speed and quality. The speed to return to candidates gives us a competitive advantage. Alooba provides a higher level of confidence in the people coming through the pipeline with less time spent interviewing unqualified candidates.

Scott Crowe, Canva (Lead Recruiter - Data)

How can you accurately assess somebody's technical skills, like the same way across the board, right? We had devised a Tableau-based assessment. So it wasn't like a past/fail. It was kind of like, hey, what do they send us? Did they understand the data or the values that they're showing accurate? Where we'd say, hey, here's the credentials to access the data set. And it just wasn't really a scalable way to assess technical - just administering it, all of it was manual, but the whole process sucked!

Cole Brickley, Avicado (Director Data Science & Business Intelligence)

I wouldn't dream of hiring somebody in a technical role without doing that technical assessment because the number of times where I've had candidates either on paper on the CV, say, I'm a SQL expert or in an interview, saying, I'm brilliant at Excel, I'm brilliant at this. And you actually put them in front of a computer, say, do this task. And some people really struggle. So you have to have that technical assessment.

Mike Yates, The British Psychological Society (Head of Data & Analytics)

I was at WooliesX (Woolworths) and we used Alooba and it was a highly positive experience. We had a large number of candidates. At WooliesX, previously we were quite dependent on the designed test from the team leads. That was quite a manual process. We realised it would take too much time from us. The time saving is great. Even spending 15 minutes per candidate with a manual test would be huge - hours per week, but with Alooba we just see the numbers immediately.

Shen Liu, Logickube (Principal at Logickube)