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> needing a weird combination of skills, can be solved by hiring people with half or a third of the expertise you need and training people. I'll add that compa
by Tehdasi 9y ago
> needing a weird combination of skills, can be solved by hiring people with half or a third of the expertise you need and training people.
I'll add that companies don't mention their internal tools/libraries/current code base (which is most likely of pretty crap quality and poorly documented) which is much more a hurdle than whatever language/toolset than they put in a job ad as required experience.
- FLUX-YOU 9y agoThis is a frustrating part. Even if you ask about it in an interview (there's almost always internal tools/libs/code), there's not really any compensation if they lie about their code quality and then put you on that stuff full-time. Rewriting that stuff is not great for a career. It's always been the stuff I've chosen to leave out because I don't want to signal to anyone that I'm willing to full-time rewrite your stuff.
- jaggederest 9y agoAs one of my better former managers put it, "Nobody gets a promotion for reducing the size of a tire fire by 50%"