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I think you will find a lot of these people doing embedded, desktop, or enterprise intranet stuff rather than slick web/mobile products or massively scalable ba
by closeparen 4y ago
I think you will find a lot of these people doing embedded, desktop, or enterprise intranet stuff rather than slick web/mobile products or massively scalable backend APIs. Using dated and uncool stacks. Dated and uncool practices. Windows centric. Hiring more about years of experience with particular framework versions than LeetCode or system design interviews.
Two perrenial favorite pieces on this website include Dark Matter Developers [0] and We Only Hire The Trendiest [1].
[0] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-unseen-99 https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...
[1] https://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/ https://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/