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not to mention his assertTrue's in testSystemsUpAndRunning are completely invalid. never in my life would i hire this person. this should be a lesson: if you'
by unshift 16y ago
not to mention his assertTrue's in testSystemsUpAndRunning are completely invalid. never in my life would i hire this person.
this should be a lesson: if you're going to do a "hacker" resume, it should be perfect and actually parse/compile and run. otherwise it looks like some lame gag.
and is putting things in "code" ever cute, clever, or funny? i submit it is not.
- enjo 16y agoMy big issue is that he comes across as an ideologue... I want flexibility from developers, not someone who makes very specific demands of our methodology.
- masklinn 16y agoWait, he comes across as an ideologue for asking for an internal bug tracker and a source control system? Or that code be reviewed? Wow...
- jarek 16y ago"Windows? shudders", on the other hand...
- digitallogic 16y agoDo you think you could elaborate? Coming off as inflexible or dictatorial was something I actually worried about. The point I am trying to make is that there are certain minimum requirements I have of any employer, just as almost every job ad I've seen has a list of expected minimum skills. Would you work on software for a company that doesn't use version control? Being on HN is enough to convince me that you're smart enough not to.
- astrec 16y agoOn the other hand I wouldn't hire anyone who wasn't inflexible about having source control, defect tracking, CI, or code reviews. What is important to me, however, is that you demonstrate a little pragmatism about us using Mercurial over Git, Hudson over CC, Jira over Bugzilla, <insert tool we use> vs. <your favourite tool this week>. Although it would reflect better on you if your unit test were valid given an appropriate companies module, I really don't think you should be to worried.
- studer 16y ago> this should be a lesson: if you're going to do a "hacker" resume, it should be perfect and actually parse/compile and run. It does parse/compile and run. Try it.
- generalk 16y agoTraceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/resume.py", line 2, in <module> from companies import YourCompany ImportError: No module named companies Am I missing something?
- studer 16y agoYeah, you're so completely missing the point of his code that I have to question the intelligence of both yourself and everyone who's upvoted your message. Is this stupid night on Hacker News, or what's going on here? (And yes, I'm 100% serious. Your reply is the dumbest thing I've ever seen on this site.)
- ElliotH 16y agoYup, the companies namespace is theoretical (containing presumably every company in existence) and contains a class YourCompany - that represents the interviewer's company. Because companies doesn't actually exist there is an import error. If you were to create a class to substitute in you'd need something like: class YourCompany: def unit_tests_code(): return True ...
- gaius 16y agoAnd he should stick to one font in his real CV, it looks very amateur.