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You never choose to hire dumb programmers. The choice is between 15 good cpp programmers and 4 good python programmers.

• buzzkillington 7y ago
  You have not had to interview the python devs I've had to interview. Last round, for the second best candidate who we hired at 130% the salary we initially offered, after the best candidate was snatched under our nose for what we were told was twice the salary we were offering: >"Last question, I saw that you wrote a 100 line function here, is this because you ran out of time?" >>"No. I don't like to break up my functions. Having many small functions is confusing and bad practice." >What am I doing with my life?
  • angrais 7y ago
    That sounds more like someone unfamiliar with good practices generally than python-specific issues. Also ... Why'd you hire this person? Is there such a lack of "good" developers in your area?
    • OGWhales 7y ago
      maybe a lack of good developers for the salary they are offering...
  • georgeisgeorge 7y ago
    Did you interview John Carmack by chance? http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.html http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...