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Being nice does not - or at least should not - make up for being incompetent. True story: I once worked for place that at one point hired a front-end engineer
by chiefalchemist 5y ago
Being nice does not - or at least should not - make up for being incompetent.
True story: I once worked for place that at one point hired a front-end engineer who didn't know JavaScript. Nice guy, generally. But from my POV had listening skills that led to friction (and crap output for clients).
I was never able to wrap my head around the fact that within out team was a front end engineer who had no experience with JS. I don't want to work with a-holes but my job / career shouldn't be tied to someone who can't swim.
- Dudeman112 5y agoMaybe they did lots of front-end jobs outside the web stack? God knows OpenGL ain't no joke.
- chiefalchemist 5y agoMaybe. Good point. But that wasn't the case.
- 71a54xd 5y agoI tend to agree here. I've been on teams where being too nice has lead to slipping deadlines and crippling miscommunication or more generally unmaintainable code that leads to dozens of bug tickets months down the line. For real though, how on earth did that org hire a front-end dev who didn't know js?
- didibus 5y agoLike they used to be a backend engineer before? In general I consider any software engineer worth there salt can pick up a new language and framework pretty quickly. And so I tend to ignore the technologies they know, but instead look for their fundamental and ability to learn quickly.