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You'll also have a smaller pool of candidates you can hire, no?

by vacri 9y ago

protomyth 9y ago
If you hire by checklist then yes. Otherwise, I would expect any competent programmer to be able to grasp Delphi.
- tylerflick 9y ago
  I was hired as a C# dev out of college. 6 months in, a legacy Delphi app was dropped in my lap for maintenance. It took me about a month to get up to speed, but after that it was just another platform/language.
- Untit1ed 9y ago
  I wouldn't expect them to want to though. Not because it's a terrible language to program in, just because it's not going to look as good on a resume for later jobs.
  - protomyth 9y ago
    And that’s the sad part of HR departments hiring by checklist, we develop a monoculture which makes it harder to actually see different ways of solving problems or creates a reinventing the wheel syndrome. There are professions that value people with a range of experience. It is really too bad that software development often isn’t one of them.
  - true_religion 9y ago
    Wow. Is this actually a major concern with some people? Around D.C., there's this tendency for employers to be very open with what languages you've used before. Have you only used Ada? Welcome on-board, though we have no uniforms here. Only used Erlang? Are you guys still saying you can see the whitehouse from your building? And for some reason C#/Java are considered almost the same language, depending on whom you talk to. Honestly, good people are good, and we don't have enough of them to become picky about demanding 5+ years experience in exactly what you are already doing. It'll take a month to onboard someone regardless of if they've used the language or not before.
    - rodgerd 9y ago
      > Wow. Is this actually a major concern with some people? https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passionate-quitters https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passi...
  - probablybroken 9y ago
    Tends to be something more mature developers are better suited to; though there might be higher salary expectations.
- vacri 9y ago
  Do all competent programmers check the 'Delphi' job postings?

You'll also have a smaller pool of candidates you can hire, no?

by vacri 9y ago

You'll also have a smaller pool of candidates you can hire, no?

protomyth 9y ago

If you hire by checklist then yes. Otherwise, I would expect any competent programmer to be able to grasp Delphi.

tylerflick 9y ago
I was hired as a C# dev out of college. 6 months in, a legacy Delphi app was dropped in my lap for maintenance. It took me about a month to get up to speed, but after that it was just another platform/language.
Untit1ed 9y ago
I wouldn't expect them to want to though. Not because it's a terrible language to program in, just because it's not going to look as good on a resume for later jobs.
- protomyth 9y ago
  And that’s the sad part of HR departments hiring by checklist, we develop a monoculture which makes it harder to actually see different ways of solving problems or creates a reinventing the wheel syndrome. There are professions that value people with a range of experience. It is really too bad that software development often isn’t one of them.
- true_religion 9y ago
  Wow. Is this actually a major concern with some people? Around D.C., there's this tendency for employers to be very open with what languages you've used before. Have you only used Ada? Welcome on-board, though we have no uniforms here. Only used Erlang? Are you guys still saying you can see the whitehouse from your building? And for some reason C#/Java are considered almost the same language, depending on whom you talk to. Honestly, good people are good, and we don't have enough of them to become picky about demanding 5+ years experience in exactly what you are already doing. It'll take a month to onboard someone regardless of if they've used the language or not before.
  - rodgerd 9y ago
    > Wow. Is this actually a major concern with some people? https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passionate-quitters https://aeon.co/essays/how-work-changed-to-make-us-all-passi...
- probablybroken 9y ago
  Tends to be something more mature developers are better suited to; though there might be higher salary expectations.
vacri 9y ago
Do all competent programmers check the 'Delphi' job postings?