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Was a fairly new engineer, when an engineer with a few years of experiencein the office, who was taking classes on the employer's dime towards a masters degree,
by tomohawk 7y ago
Was a fairly new engineer, when an engineer with a few years of experiencein the office, who was taking classes on the employer's dime towards a masters degree, asked me for assistance.
She was trying to run a C program she'd created, but it wouldn't run. I asked if she'd compiled it. She asked what a compiler was.
How can a person could survive in an office where C was the main language, and be taking courses that assumed familiarity with C, and still not know what a compiler is?
Turned out she was very skilled at taking credit for other people's work.
- Hitton 7y agoTo be honest such scenario is not so hard to imagine. When I think of my studies, it was probably some introduction to Java, we learned how to use javac during first lesson, but never used it since, because we just clicked button in IDE. Someone who missed the lesson, might never noticed he misses basics. With advanced build systems in some companies, someone who arrives from scripting language, is shown build system and told to look up the syntax might not ever realize the gap in his knowledge and at the same time might even be productive part of the team.