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"When I see resumes, the only people who put 10s are recent college graduates. They put a 10 for Java and then don't know what a hashCode is." Please tell me w
by rodly 14y ago
"When I see resumes, the only people who put 10s are recent college graduates. They put a 10 for Java and then don't know what a hashCode is."
Please tell me what colleges these graduates are coming from so I know never to hire/work with any of them, ever.
- jiggy2011 14y agoI don't think that's a specific problem with the colleges themselves. It's just when you spend 3/4 years in that kind of bubble and you get getting good marks on all your assignments you are naturally going to think "I've mastered Java" based on evaluating the only evidence presented to you. Of course there is a difference between knowledge and aptitude here. Would a candidate who doesn't know what .hashCode() does but who after a 10 minute explanation says "yes, I understand now makes sense" be a bad hire? I program a lot of Java but I am unfamiliar with huge amounts of both the language and standard API (especially the parts dealing with 'enterprise' stuff and concurrency). This is mainly because I explicitly design my Java apps around a shared nothing/POJO-JPA configuration and I don't use RMI , Reflection or JMS. Does that mean I am a bad Java programmer?