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From personal experience, interns actually end up doing more than their Senior counterparts. And what we worked on would fall under computer vision / machine l
by pmalynin 10y ago
From personal experience, interns actually end up doing more than their Senior counterparts.
And what we worked on would fall under computer vision / machine learning, so I wouldn't call it "almost-entry-level" work
- sangnoir 10y ago> From personal experience, interns actually end up doing more than their Senior counterparts Appearances can be deceiving - for senior positions (rather, for more experienced people) more is less. What is more work - writing 2000 new lines of code or writing/refactoring into 200 that do the same thing?
- pmalynin 10y agoI was talking more about the fact that they were mostly stuck doing "administrative tasks," presentations, code reviews, data migrations. Things that don't exactly contribute to the progress of the project per se. Edit: Actually the interns were doing the refactoring too. This project is a bit outlier however as the code base was completely new, like 3 days old when we joined.
- sangnoir 10y ago> I was talking more about the fact that they were mostly stuck doing "administrative tasks," presentations, code reviews, data migrations. Things that don't exactly contribute to the progress of the project per se. I see what you mean, but I disagree about those tasks not contributing to the project. A software project is more than just code alone: understanding the ever-changing problem space, creating a roadmap, budgets, meetings, schedules, handling conflicts (politics) are necessary for all non-trivial projects whether it's proprietary or Free/Open Source. I do commend your seniors for shielding you from the boring (but very necessary) bits - I'm sure they made it look easy.