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> Yes, if you haven't been using AWS and GPGPUs you will be of minimal use to us > already made a bunch of mistakes on someone else's dime. What is it with th
by bbcbasic 10y ago
> Yes, if you haven't been using AWS and GPGPUs you will be of minimal use to us
> already made a bunch of mistakes on someone else's dime.
What is it with this industries lack of interest in investing in people yet demanding so many hours that you can't learn anything new at least nothing deep. Why not just make everyone a contractor but pay them appropriately as a result.
- gumby 10y agoI guess I phrased that poorly! I meant battle scars are important: not everybody will have them (some will acquire those scars in the future). In other words, experience is important. Sometimes experience gets in your way ("No, a scripting language will be too slow for this") and other times it saves you a huge amount of grief ("Really, we had better plumb that now, it will save us a lot of pain down the road"). Not sure I suggested many hours (quite the opposite) or not learning anything new.
- bbcbasic 10y agoMaybe it wasn't phrased as intended, but my point is few companies are willing to take someone on just because they haven't done tech X even if they are seasoned in tech Y which is broadly similar and have all of the communication, team working, leadership, problem solving and domain skills. Because they need to "hit the ground running". The flipside is that of course employees don't hang around along in IT as they need to keep moving to gain the experiences they need to make their CV look reasonable. So I guess it is perpetuated on both sides.