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> I’ve always been fascinated with the idea that someone can be a software developer for 5, 10, 20 years and bomb in interviews i cant remember who said it but
by chasd00 4y ago
> I’ve always been fascinated with the idea that someone can be a software developer for 5, 10, 20 years and bomb in interviews
i cant remember who said it but many people with 10 years experience really have 1 year of experience and 9 years performing tasks doing the same thing over and over.
- achempion 4y agoThe phrase is catchy but a bit too harsh. First of all, software frameworks and technology evolve. Second, it's pretty hard to find someone who worked for 10 years at the same company with the same software project doing CRUD actions. On the other side, if you meet linux kernel engineer who maintained kernel for the past 10 yers, this argument fails short. Same for someone who worked on Postgres internals.
- jjav 4y ago> and 9 years performing tasks doing the same thing over and over. I mean that's what experience is. If I want an expert in x, I want someone who has being doing x for ten years. I don't want someone who has dabbled in ten different things in ten years, thus having very superficial exposure to ten things and expertise in nothing. If I need a heart surgeon, I want the doctor who has been doing only heart surgeries for a couple decades. That's an expert. I certainly don't want some doctor who has been switching from heart surgery to podiatry to dentistry and on and on without specializing in anything.