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Spoiler: That's not even part of his "lessons learned". I know whom I won't hire for my company IT or devops or whatnot.

abraae 5y ago
Brutal honesty can be a wonderful trait all of its own in a team however. We can assume the author is not a BS artist from his very candid self-evaluation. This is a good thing he should hang onto. "My haphazard strategy resulted in three days of stress and frustration as I clambered to restore a self-hosting empire that I myself had reduced to ash."
- argomo 5y ago
  Plus he's able to reflect on his own mistakes and articulate what he learned from them. Would hire.
bluehatbrit 5y ago
One of the articles they link off to about choosing a different provider explains that the author is a student. I think it's reasonable to assume they don't have much experience with this type of work. Hopefully they'll learn a lot from this process and maybe from the comments here as well. Maybe lets not write someone off before we understand more about their experience and background, especially after they shared an honest account of something they screwed up and learned from.
gperciva 5y ago
Do you normally hire high school students at your company?
- ikiris 5y ago
  They cost less.
nick__m 5y ago
Good idea to let him graduate from highschool before hiring him !
sigmonsays 5y ago
i did things like this in high school tool...
monkeywork 5y ago
Given you phrased this "for my company IT or devops or whatnot" I'm going to guess you have very little if any input into who gets hired into those positions, or at least shouldn't if you yourself don't know what the terminology for them should be. Secondly taking shots at people like this does not encourage people to share learnable lessons like this - instead it encourages them to hide it away. Again if you are person in management you'd think you'd know better than to encourage people to hide mistakes instead of owning them and learning from them. Finally - you do realize this is a kid right? Not some seasoned professional?
bigiain 5y ago
> I’m FIGBERT, an Israeli-American high school student They've got probably half a decade of youthful mistakes to make yet before they'll darken your recruiting door. Give em a break. (At their age I think I was still bashing on Locksmith to copy AppleII game floppies, and I turned out OK enough to be managing the devops team where I work now...)

abraae 5y ago

Brutal honesty can be a wonderful trait all of its own in a team however. We can assume the author is not a BS artist from his very candid self-evaluation. This is a good thing he should hang onto. "My haphazard strategy resulted in three days of stress and frustration as I clambered to restore a self-hosting empire that I myself had reduced to ash."

argomo 5y ago
Plus he's able to reflect on his own mistakes and articulate what he learned from them. Would hire.

bluehatbrit 5y ago

One of the articles they link off to about choosing a different provider explains that the author is a student. I think it's reasonable to assume they don't have much experience with this type of work. Hopefully they'll learn a lot from this process and maybe from the comments here as well. Maybe lets not write someone off before we understand more about their experience and background, especially after they shared an honest account of something they screwed up and learned from.

gperciva 5y ago

Do you normally hire high school students at your company?

ikiris 5y ago
They cost less.

nick__m 5y ago

Good idea to let him graduate from highschool before hiring him !

sigmonsays 5y ago

i did things like this in high school tool...

monkeywork 5y ago

Given you phrased this "for my company IT or devops or whatnot" I'm going to guess you have very little if any input into who gets hired into those positions, or at least shouldn't if you yourself don't know what the terminology for them should be. Secondly taking shots at people like this does not encourage people to share learnable lessons like this - instead it encourages them to hide it away. Again if you are person in management you'd think you'd know better than to encourage people to hide mistakes instead of owning them and learning from them. Finally - you do realize this is a kid right? Not some seasoned professional?

bigiain 5y ago

> I’m FIGBERT, an Israeli-American high school student They've got probably half a decade of youthful mistakes to make yet before they'll darken your recruiting door. Give em a break. (At their age I think I was still bashing on Locksmith to copy AppleII game floppies, and I turned out OK enough to be managing the devops team where I work now...)