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It's sort of funny, I know of two "software engineers" that work at GM (on what exactly, I don't know, but it's embedded). One I worked with at a previous job.
by bluedino 3y ago
It's sort of funny, I know of two "software engineers" that work at GM (on what exactly, I don't know, but it's embedded).
One I worked with at a previous job. He went to a prestigious US military academy for computer science, he worked in our marketing department, and at some point I turned the keys over to our Wordpress site to him. He fucked in up in so many ways and he did so many ass-backwards things...
The next guy was an electrical engineer at a previous job, he once had me help him with a GUI for a Python application to flash firmware to a device we made. It was some of the worst production code I had ever seen, it crashed often, had little error checking, I'm not sure how it even worked.
- khzw8yyy 3y agoMy classmate back from Uni is a pretty high up manager working on GM infotainment (as is his dad). He (the classmate) failed and had to retake CS101 three times.
- NotSammyHagar 3y agoThat is embarrassing but it doesn't necessarily mean anything. What matters is did they end up a competent software engineer.
- epistasis 3y agoThe proof is in the quality of the product they work on, apparently...
- wffurr 3y ago“Pretty high up manager” implies competent careerist, not software engineer. Especially at a company like GM.
- justrealist 3y agoI understand that all heuristics are imperfect but P(good engineer | failed cs 101 multiple times) is so close to 0 it is a rounding error.