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To play a devil's advocate, Spolsky's advice was provided at a different time. Perhaps then the requirements and thus necessary skills were different from today
by havetocharge 10y ago
To play a devil's advocate, Spolsky's advice was provided at a different time. Perhaps then the requirements and thus necessary skills were different from today, and it might have made sense to rely on his quick and polarizing criterion. I do agree that his tone is brash, noninclusive and overall damaging to the industry as a whole. I would imagine some people would be discouraged from even trying to get into the industry after reading some of his articles.
- FollowSteph3 10y agoYou hit the nail right in the head, it was a different time. I remember back then how many people had completely fake and fraudulent resumes and a very large part of hiring was just trying to filter our the fraud. It was massive at some point. It seems to be better now but back then it was just incredible how much resume fraud there was :(
- rhizome 10y agoOn the other hand, the past isn't even past. Ads on careers.stackoverflow.com have Joel Test markings on them.