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Actually it is pretty simple. Currently, i do know 4 entirely different programming languages, and 2 entirely different database language (i wonder how many do know which one is the second...), but, BUT, if am to be interviewed right now for any other language but the most recent one that i used, i would fail miserably. Literally. The truth is that the human mind is pretty limited, and is for sure not multitask, so once you stop to use any language, in no time you forget the little tricks and particulars of the language. As simple as that. Does that means that i forgot to use it forever? NO. It just means that i would need some very short period of time for my mind and my fingers to remember how it was to code in this particular language, and then voila, here we go again.
Anyway, if i was on your place, i would ask some very specific questions that are not written in any book or test, but that are showing some very specific feature of the given language or application that you could know only if you have spent a lot of time doing the given job.
Oracle guru question: How to get the number of rows in the table?
I have seen a team of 10 nice guys trying to do the work of one not so nice guy. The result was.....let me tell you this again: 100 donkeys are not equal to 1 horse.
Let me clarify it. You mean that when you left the company, the company actually gained a net loss? Wow, man, i don't know how nice are you, but you have pretty big self-confidence.
Funny, but was not the whole problem with finding the best candidate because the company is not willing to TEACH the employee???
Now, what do you want, to teach someone nice, or to hire someone skilled???
It looks like you are failing to understand the difference between being a leader (to persuade the others to accept your opinion) and being nice (to accept anyone's bullshit), but don't mind me, keep going, it is not a fish.
When you become both hot and cold, then yes, i would agree with you.
Being good developer means being able to take good decisions.
Being nice means being able and willing to lick anybody's ass. Even if it is bad decision.
Actually yes, it is very hard. When i was looking for job, my schedule was FULL. And not only that, i had to keep in mind that most HR are calling you when then decide, without even sending you an email before that!!! So, yes, it is hard to squeeze 30 min.
Let me ask you a question, why do you go to work? In the office? To have a nice chat with nice people, or, for god sake, just to do the god damn work, for which you are actually getting paid!!! Wow, wow and wow. But the funny thing is that most of the employers are also so badly mistaken as they are actually looking for nicer guys, not for professional workers.
Of course, but if your looking for well behaving guys, all you will got is guess what? Nice guys. It is jungle out there man, and there are two ways to compete:
1.Being nicer guy
2.Being better developer.
Guess what? 1) pays better (and is easier, you don't have to study, don't have to learn new things, don't have to read all the time, don't have to think..)
Guess what? You loose more because the nice guys will do anything and everything to throw away their real competition, the better developer. And usually they succeed. And usually the company goes belly up.
I did not say that i know everything, i said that my wide skill set allows me pretty fast to enter in any area, and actually not only to do the job, but to do it right, and to avoid most of the traps that some bright college grad would not miss to fall into.
What the frack is wrong with you??? Are you looking for a mate, or for professional who gets the job done!!! Man, let me remind you, all of the employee are in the office not because they love you, but because they want your money. As simple as that. Of course, if you get excited seeing nice looking guys having fun time together, instead of doing their job, then fine, it is your money. Go ahead.
It is actually pretty simple:
1.Networking. This simple word defines 99% of all recruitment decisions. If you don't know someone, then you cannot get the job. As a result, if the company provides good benefits, the chance that you, the lonely wold would pass the initial test and interview are very close to zero, minus zero actually (no pun intended).
2.As a result of the before mentioned networking, most of the bad developers are having the perfect resume, the perfect references, and the perfect self-confidence. And of course, as Darvin already proved, no skills are required, so they don't have them.
3.The consequence of 1. and 2. is that once they are hired, and prove their lack of skills, the HR team would panic, and would try to use some funny ways of finding the best candidate, which will end up hiring the worst candidate of course (the one with networking), and so the cycle is repeated....
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It is not coincidence that the Great China Empire fall, not because of some external treat, but because of the corruption, ops, sorry, i mean "networking".
And the slavery is pretty good at keeping down the child molester. Lets face it, in the past, no black man did abuse the kids, and there was no white collar black males criminal, lol, what a sentence. Or for the simple minded, lets enslave all the people, and thus solve the child abusing criminals.
Now now, please, who is going to give me my Nobel Prize?
BUT, the most funny thing is that they are actually right. LOL, USA, a country of absurd and funny truths. And the reason they are right is that once they say how many Americans are spied upon, the uproar will be so big that everybody would try to know who is actually spied, which will cause disclosing their names, and thus violating their right to stay anonymous......LOL, better ignorant and fracked, than (you guess what).
In short term yes, i do agree with you. In long term, no, what really matters is your skill-set. Of course it is true only if you are not afraid to take risk, and gods forbid, change employer!!!! More than 2 times!!! Nooooo.
Anyway, if you happen to work for one company for what, 10 years and more, then i am really sorry for you, but you are simply un-employe-able. In which case you better every dirty tricks to keep your job and your position, otherwise....
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Actually it is pretty simple. Currently, i do know 4 entirely different programming languages, and 2 entirely different database language (i wonder how many do know which one is the second...), but, BUT, if am to be interviewed right now for any other language but the most recent one that i used, i would fail miserably. Literally. The truth is that the human mind is pretty limited, and is for sure not multitask, so once you stop to use any language, in no time you forget the little tricks and particulars of the language. As simple as that. Does that means that i forgot to use it forever? NO. It just means that i would need some very short period of time for my mind and my fingers to remember how it was to code in this particular language, and then voila, here we go again.
Anyway, if i was on your place, i would ask some very specific questions that are not written in any book or test, but that are showing some very specific feature of the given language or application that you could know only if you have spent a lot of time doing the given job.
Oracle guru question: How to get the number of rows in the table?
I have seen a team of 10 nice guys trying to do the work of one not so nice guy. The result was.....let me tell you this again: 100 donkeys are not equal to 1 horse.
In this case, i just want to share one sentence with you: 100 donkeys are not equal to 1 horse. But don't mind me, keep hiring donkeys.
Let me clarify it. You mean that when you left the company, the company actually gained a net loss? Wow, man, i don't know how nice are you, but you have pretty big self-confidence.
Funny, but was not the whole problem with finding the best candidate because the company is not willing to TEACH the employee???
Now, what do you want, to teach someone nice, or to hire someone skilled???
It looks like you are failing to understand the difference between being a leader (to persuade the others to accept your opinion) and being nice (to accept anyone's bullshit), but don't mind me, keep going, it is not a fish.
I second that.
The problem is that your sentence is false. The whole article is about the companies NOT being able to find the proper guys with the proper skill set.
Usually, being nice means being able to be convinced that the under-skilled friend of the boss is actually not talking bullshit.
When you become both hot and cold, then yes, i would agree with you.
Being good developer means being able to take good decisions.
Being nice means being able and willing to lick anybody's ass. Even if it is bad decision.
Actually yes, it is very hard. When i was looking for job, my schedule was FULL. And not only that, i had to keep in mind that most HR are calling you when then decide, without even sending you an email before that!!! So, yes, it is hard to squeeze 30 min.
I am wondering, how do you measure the personality??? Do you have some tricky test? Something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP0sqRMzkwo
Let me ask you a question, why do you go to work? In the office? To have a nice chat with nice people, or, for god sake, just to do the god damn work, for which you are actually getting paid!!! Wow, wow and wow. But the funny thing is that most of the employers are also so badly mistaken as they are actually looking for nicer guys, not for professional workers.
Of course, but if your looking for well behaving guys, all you will got is guess what? Nice guys. It is jungle out there man, and there are two ways to compete:
1.Being nicer guy
2.Being better developer.
Guess what? 1) pays better (and is easier, you don't have to study, don't have to learn new things, don't have to read all the time, don't have to think..)
Guess what? You loose more because the nice guys will do anything and everything to throw away their real competition, the better developer. And usually they succeed. And usually the company goes belly up.
I did not say that i know everything, i said that my wide skill set allows me pretty fast to enter in any area, and actually not only to do the job, but to do it right, and to avoid most of the traps that some bright college grad would not miss to fall into.
What the frack is wrong with you??? Are you looking for a mate, or for professional who gets the job done!!! Man, let me remind you, all of the employee are in the office not because they love you, but because they want your money. As simple as that. Of course, if you get excited seeing nice looking guys having fun time together, instead of doing their job, then fine, it is your money. Go ahead.
You are wrong of course. The best way to turn down legitimately an undesired job offer is to ask for $100/h,
After 15 years of software development, i have yet to see a job that i could not do..
It is actually pretty simple:
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1.Networking. This simple word defines 99% of all recruitment decisions. If you don't know someone, then you cannot get the job. As a result, if the company provides good benefits, the chance that you, the lonely wold would pass the initial test and interview are very close to zero, minus zero actually (no pun intended).
2.As a result of the before mentioned networking, most of the bad developers are having the perfect resume, the perfect references, and the perfect self-confidence. And of course, as Darvin already proved, no skills are required, so they don't have them.
3.The consequence of 1. and 2. is that once they are hired, and prove their lack of skills, the HR team would panic, and would try to use some funny ways of finding the best candidate, which will end up hiring the worst candidate of course (the one with networking), and so the cycle is repeated....
It is not coincidence that the Great China Empire fall, not because of some external treat, but because of the corruption, ops, sorry, i mean "networking".
"The Day of the Triffids" - John Wyndham.
Actually, you could say it not science fiction, as it is the reality now....but anyway.
And the slavery is pretty good at keeping down the child molester. Lets face it, in the past, no black man did abuse the kids, and there was no white collar black males criminal, lol, what a sentence. Or for the simple minded, lets enslave all the people, and thus solve the child abusing criminals.
Now now, please, who is going to give me my Nobel Prize?
BUT, the most funny thing is that they are actually right. LOL, USA, a country of absurd and funny truths. And the reason they are right is that once they say how many Americans are spied upon, the uproar will be so big that everybody would try to know who is actually spied, which will cause disclosing their names, and thus violating their right to stay anonymous......LOL, better ignorant and fracked, than (you guess what).
Wow, man, i wish i was your employee, and screw you before you fire me........
Man, you will die young, such a paranoia is rare to see these days.
In short term yes, i do agree with you. In long term, no, what really matters is your skill-set. Of course it is true only if you are not afraid to take risk, and gods forbid, change employer!!!! More than 2 times!!! Nooooo.
Anyway, if you happen to work for one company for what, 10 years and more, then i am really sorry for you, but you are simply un-employe-able. In which case you better every dirty tricks to keep your job and your position, otherwise....