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> What would you do otherwise to show me that you're a programmer? Pretty much every other job in every other industry seems to do OK with education, experienc
by michaelt 3y ago
> What would you do otherwise to show me that you're a programmer?
Pretty much every other job in every other industry seems to do OK with education, experience and references.
If I want to hire a guy to tile my bathroom I don't need him to slap some tiles onto a whiteboard to get the job - some photos of the last few jobs he's done would be just fine.
Is the programming profession really so full of inept frauds? Is our industry so unable to regulate university education that qualifications are so worthless?
- dekhn 3y agoIs the bathroom tiling really a fair comparison? The main reason I hire the way I do is I learned that there are people who have resumes that look like mine (with 30+ years of coding) but they don't actually know how to do any coding, even just "please write out a simple class in python that does nothing". I go out of my way to give every candidate a fair shake and I'm not looking for some fast, set-in-stone rules. Nor am I looking for you to solve any really hard problems. Still it's been depressing just how many coders I interview who can't even explain how a hash table works.
- codr7 3y agoTry again?