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Hiring Programmers and The High Cost of Low Quality
An anonymous reader writes "Why is it so hard to find good programmers? And why should companies favor hiring fewer more senior developers rather than many junior ones? Frank Wiles discusses his thoughts in his article A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality"
My advice is specialize in something to the point where when you do any work on it, it's immediately out of the comprehension of a generalist or a less accomplished programmer
Perl and Batch files it is!
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
^^ No kidding, it's like this guy just read about the Code team as surgical group. I'm a baby programmer (young, i don't actually program babies) and even i think this is old news.
... is still looking for a senior programmer with 15 years of .NET experience.
Have gnu, will travel.
A properly trained, incentivized and provisioned Java team can run rings around a Perl team in terms of working code produced, as well as (more importantly) cost to develop and cost to maintain. and a python team can do it in half the time, and half the code
>There's no one programmer who does the work of ten other programmers
Oh there is, I am one. I've had several occasions where I solved problems in a few days (or 4 hours once) that others were struggling at for months; some of these others were plain incompetent, others were pretty good.
I find that I'm pretty unique in fitting the right tool to the problem at hand, as well as in general overview. I've never met anyone as productive as myself.
I'm posting this anonymously, because I have to work with others, and one of the things you cannot do is alienate everyone around you; one sure way of doing that is being more skilled than them in all job related aspects.