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I worked at a PHP-based company and after a year of intense interviewing, we finally decided to switch core languages and tech stacks because we weren't attract
by steven2012 10y ago
I worked at a PHP-based company and after a year of intense interviewing, we finally decided to switch core languages and tech stacks because we weren't attracting strong enough candidates.
What we found is that most good programmers didn't want to work in php and most php developers were designers that learned how to code php. But they didn't understand CS fundamentals or even a decent idea how to code. They could cobble together a web site that worked and even looked great, but they didn't know how to write maintainable, modular code.
It got to the point where I would ask the candidate to merge two sorted arrays and 70% couldn't do it properly.
In terms of language, I thought php itself was a surprisingly productive language. I just quit though because I didn't want to be known as a php developer because of the stigma and there poor quality of other php developers that I encountered.
- gnuvince 10y agoWhat did you end up switching to?
- draw_down 10y agoAh, so PHP doesn't suck, it's just that PHP devs suck. Alrighty then.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- justinhj 10y agoI found that if you advertise for php programmers you get mostly people working on fairly simple web applications. The more talented programmers would apply when we emphasized that we use php for the front of the backend systems, but we also use Go and node.js for more realtime parts of what is a suite of micro services. once we got them in the door they were happy and productive php programmers
- justinhj 10y agoI found that if you advertise for php programmers you get mostly people working on fairly simple web applications. The more talented programmers would apply when we emphasized that we use php for the front of the backend systems, but we also use Go and node.js for more realtime parts of what is a suite of micro services. once we got them in the door they were happy and productive php programmers