superEb

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   by superEb 13y ago

   > If you had different genes, you would have been a cat instead of human, and would not have the brain to be a software engineer. While I don't discount the whole of your argument, this is possibly the dumbest thing you could have s
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   by superEb 13y ago

   I would venture to guess that you have not done much hiring and, thus, have not been burned by taking on developers, spending time and money to get them up to speed on application architecture, domain knowledge, and team processes, only to
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   by superEb 13y ago

   Are you saying that exception handling is trivial and so old that it's irrelevant to know how to do it?
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   by superEb 13y ago

   Good point. I failed to mention that the coding exercise is done sitting at a computer with an IDE.
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   by superEb 13y ago

   So it's a simple concept that takes no time to learn, and they haven't yet learned it before showing up for an interview. Doesn't that tell me something right there? Should I expect them to be knowledgeable of complicated con
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   by superEb 13y ago

   Thanks for your input, Dan. Based on your college experience, it sounds like you would not have been applying for a Java developer position right out of school, correct? But these candidates are. The position they are applying for is offi
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   Ask HN: Shouldn't a recent CS grad know how to throw an exception?

   7 points by superEb 13y ago|38 comments