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FWIW that's not a true statement. Large companies have roles and vacancies where there are expectation and existing code to maintain.
by TooBrokeToBeg 8y ago
FWIW that's not a true statement. Large companies have roles and vacancies where there are expectation and existing code to maintain.
- pdpi 8y agoVaries a lot. E.g. when I was at FB I joined a C++ team while having written about 200 lines of C++ before in my life — we also had proper C++ experts in the team, and they cared more about experience in the problem domain. All of these conversations were held _after_ I was hired though — the pipeline is a mixture of hiring experts for specific positions and "hire people that seem good enough, and let them find their own teams"
- malkia 8y agoSimilar with me, background in mostly C/C++/Pascal, etc. - joined Google and had to write Java - what surprised me mostly were: Killing app due to GC stress, Dependency Injection, Checked Exceptions and using various containers (map, set, etc.) as an interface without assuming concrete implementation (or maybe not so). Didn't graduate well from this "program", but give full respect to Java now. Back to C++ land for me, and it's been good.