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HR: What languages do you know? Programmer: I have a really solid base in OOP and functional langs so I can pick up a language pretty quickly. HR: Right Right
by nickthemagicman 10y ago
HR: What languages do you know?
Programmer: I have a really solid base in OOP and functional langs so I can pick up a language pretty quickly.
HR: Right Right, but what languages are you most experienced in.
Programmer: Do you ask a carpenter which brand of saw he uses or doctor which type of mri machine he prefers? Give me a few weeks, I'll have whatever language you want down.
HR: We want someone who can provide value from day 1.
Programmer: There's your tech shortage.
- jghn 10y agoThis is the #1 problem in tech hiring. Sadly folks in our industry help to perpetuate it, many devs think the same way as your HR person.
- flukus 10y ago> HR: We want someone who can provide value from day 1. This is particulalrly bad, because no one can honestly promise that without knowing more about what their walking into. If the codebase is spaghetti and it takes a week to checkout and setup a project (alarmingly common). They're rewarding the liars.