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>In CS you almost never have a single person who is overly-trained relative to peers. You have no idea. Skill and knowledge differentials are VAST. I cannot fi
by Kenji 10y ago
>In CS you almost never have a single person who is overly-trained relative to peers.
You have no idea. Skill and knowledge differentials are VAST. I cannot find capital letters large enough to emphasise this enough. You get everything from the 'not invented here' guy reinventing a triangular 'wheel' that doesn't roll, all the way to the superstar who develops generic APIs and algorithms that generate value for literally decades.
- Retric 10y agoSkill != training. Medical care is spit from 2 years of training to nearly 20 years. With arguably the most important group first responders getting weeks of training.
- nvarsj 10y agoThat's a puzzling analysis. Of course job skill correlates with training. Usually the better programmers have spent far more time training (usually on their own, auto-didact style) than the poor ones. I'm sure it's the same for top surgeons.
- Retric 10y agoI have often noticed a strong negative correlation with degrees held. Someone without a degree must be really good to get and stay on the team. People with PHD's tend to have a lot of really bad habbits from years of school related development with long matenance cycles or production exposure. Though I have also noticed people with a few years of professional exprence between collage and starting a masters program tend to be vastly better so YMMV.