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I was shocked when I ran across a relatively decent “full stack” developer who ran Linux but had almost no working knowledge of the command line. All they knew
by kayodelycaon 2y ago
I was shocked when I ran across a relatively decent “full stack” developer who ran Linux but had almost no working knowledge of the command line. All they knew was copying commands from Google and pasting them into a terminal.
I never thought I’d have check for basic command line proficiency in job interviews.
- znpy 2y agoLinux is mostly mainstream nowadays. The barrier to entrance has largely been demolished (canonical/ubuntu are the main entities to be credited for this) and hardware support is incredibly and increasingly good.
- hxii 2y agoThis is all too common where I work, people just "run" the terminal through PyCharm without knowing what iTerm2 or MacOS terminal exist on their machines, not being able to read git errors (or most errors for that matter), not understanding that "man" exists and more. Programming is easy. Perhaps too easy.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> not being able to read git errors (or most errors for that matter), It would be interesting to add an interview question to the tune of "here's an error message; what's wrong?" (Where the message spells out the problem.)