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"Confidence is key in this field. I am more apt to hire someone with a good air about them then a guy who cant look you in the eyes but has a great resume." Ar
by j_baker 16y ago
"Confidence is key in this field. I am more apt to hire someone with a good air about them then a guy who cant look you in the eyes but has a great resume."
Are you hiring programmers or used car salesmen? I simply don't buy that confidence is more key in programming than in other fields.
- zbruhnke 16y agoI am not talking about hiring people who have no grasp of a concept. I am saying that not unlike many other fields programming has a good bit to do with what you believe you are capable of. If someone has 5 years experience at Microsoft but does not believe in their work and/or are not confident in the product they put out but a guy fresh out of college has a great Github presence and a passion for programming I am certainly more apt to hire the latter.
- arethuza 16y agoDepends on the environment - in a customer facing/consulting role it is probably the key success factor. What clients often want is certainly - even if the reality is usually "it depends". However, for work on an in-house software team that same level of confidence can often lead to disasters as the borderline between confidence and plain pig headed arrogance is paper thin.