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To me, this is the sniff test of a good engineer. All the good engineers I've known would've jumped at the opportunity to learn a new technology on company time
by kenhwang 6y ago
To me, this is the sniff test of a good engineer. All the good engineers I've known would've jumped at the opportunity to learn a new technology on company time/money. The engineers that refuse to learn generally don't grow.
- gfodor 6y agoYup pretty much. Esp when it’s something like Erlang that passes the sniff test as something that likely will expand your knowledge in a meaningful way, and be a long lived technology.
- setr 6y agoThe term used within my circles is 10x1 engineers -- they've replicated their first year of experience/learning 10 times over. Biggest thing to watch out for when hiring "senior" devs
- tuxcall 6y agoYes, it doesn't matter if it's a programming language or another technology. That's engineers not worth keeping around, stuck in their old ways, sooner or later they'll make themselves obsolete. I'm not a <language> programmer. I'm a programmer period.