One thing I watch for when hiring is what the programmer has at home - if he doesn't have at least three machines all running differeent OS's he doesn't have the calling.
I'm an undergrad, so my only experience is internships and assessment centres, so take this with a pinch of salt. No matter where I've been, work/life balance has been talked about a lot, to the point of telling people to go home because they're working too long.
Fine, you may be passionate about whatever your field is, but that can go too far.
Ah, but the Cambridge first edition has been defaced! Some vandal has scribbled notes in the margins.
No, wait, it belonged to Newton, and they're his notes for the changes to be made to the second edition.
Anyone who wants to can go to see it in Trinity College library. While you're there, there's a good chunk of Darwin's bits and pieces in Christ's, a Gutenberg Bible in the University Library.
Odd that. This looks like a printed version of innumerable impressions of the spoken English of a certain US president.
(See (?) BBC Radio 4's Dead Ringers for one the the funniest)
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I'm an undergrad, so my only experience is internships and assessment centres, so take this with a pinch of salt. No matter where I've been, work/life balance has been talked about a lot, to the point of telling people to go home because they're working too long.
Fine, you may be passionate about whatever your field is, but that can go too far.
Any modelling of industrial processes - generally relatively simple iterative claculations, but huge numbers of them.
Ah, but the Cambridge first edition has been defaced! Some vandal has scribbled notes in the margins. No, wait, it belonged to Newton, and they're his notes for the changes to be made to the second edition. Anyone who wants to can go to see it in Trinity College library. While you're there, there's a good chunk of Darwin's bits and pieces in Christ's, a Gutenberg Bible in the University Library.
Odd that. This looks like a printed version of innumerable impressions of the spoken English of a certain US president. (See (?) BBC Radio 4's Dead Ringers for one the the funniest)