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Doesn't sound like he had much of a portfolio of launched apps. Just one 47k lines project is the only one he was specific about. The rest was about education t
by lnanek2 13y ago
Doesn't sound like he had much of a portfolio of launched apps. Just one 47k lines project is the only one he was specific about. The rest was about education that doesn't matter much.
If he really wants a programming job he should get his hands dirty and publish some apps, either alone or meeting up with tech meetup or study group. A PhD is not studying how to code, you just may code a little as a by product. Then he could talk about launching and features and getting code done day after day instead of talking incessantly about education, and he'd land the job.
Kind of strange he wasn't able to place due to the old boys network, though. I know tons of people running startups who simply check their alma mater first and foremost when hiring. Especially schools like his.
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoIf he really wants a programming job he should get his hands dirty and publish some apps, either alone or meeting up with tech meetup or study group. Speaking from the grad-school/research perspective: we never think of that. Why? Because our entire training is in thinking about research-hard problems. From our perspective, anything you can get together in a Hackathon and crank out an "app" for is trivial and beneath consideration for someone proposing to do serious work. And yes, I do realize exactly how this sounds. The best I can say in our defense is that we still face all the normal design, development, testing/QA, and marketing issues after we've solved a research problem.