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I know what it's alluding to. It's just 1). silly to compare hiring a programmer to hiring a car driver for many reasons and 2). very unlikely anyone would hire
by mattdeboard 15y ago
I know what it's alluding to. It's just 1). silly to compare hiring a programmer to hiring a car driver for many reasons and 2). very unlikely anyone would hire a job posting for a [front-end dev|HTML&CSS|customer support] (choose your own metaphor) who has experience in kernel programming, which is what this faulty metaphor is alluding to.
It may happen, but I'd be surprised if it's regular enough to be considered how programmers are hired.
- losethos 15y agoHacker News is for entrepreneurs. I'm a start-up and do kernel programming as well as html and answerring the phone. http://www.losethos.com http://www.losethos.com
- Tangaroa 15y agoThe link exaggerates, but web developer positions often require knowledge of every tool in the chain from the server to Photoshop and Flash. You have to be the front-end art guy and the front-end implementation guy and the back-end coder and the DBA and the system administrator, for $10-$12 per hour or less if it's a fixed-payment contract.
- mattdeboard 15y agoReally? $10-12/hr? That's about what my internship pays. I've seen ridiculous job listings ("Developer needed -- M.S. in Computer Science required, PhD preferred"-type listing for what seem to be pretty standard programming jobs), but I assume they were paying significantly more than $10/12 hr
- Tangaroa 15y agoMy memory for the wage scale was stuck around 2002-2003, so add a decade's worth of inflation.
- mattdeboard 15y agoWith all respect, I think either the salary or the requirements have been exaggerated in the retelling since then.
- radagaisus 15y ago10$-12$ an hour? really? it's less then I got when I was seventeen, and I don't even live in the US.
- Deestan 15y agoIn Norway, you can actually be sentenced to jail for paying those wages. Though I've only seen fines being applied in practice.