User: kennyle

Re:The answer depends

On: Hiring Good Programmers Matters

What would you do?
From "poor" programmer
printf("Hello world!\n");
Finish Project in 1 hour.


From "advanced" programmer
/* simply print the words "Hello world" to user */
printf("Hello world!\n");
Finish Project in 4 hours.

from "guru" programmer
/*
* Hello world!
* Copyright (c) 2005 John "Code Guru" Doe
*
* This programme tells the computer to say hello
* to the world, using correct Engligh grammar.
* It should look like:
*
* Hello, world!
*
* NOTES
*
* The programme is limited to one way in which
* it greets the world. In version 2.0 we may
* include another variant of the phrase. We
* will need an advanced AI engine for the task.
*
* BUGS
*
* The punctuation is not entirely correct.
* The programme skips the comma between
* "Hello" and "world".
*
* TODO
*
* Needs more testing.
*/

// Greet the world. To do that, we make the
// computer say "Hello, world!".
printf("Hello world!\n");
Finish Project in 2 days.

Now if you are a CEO of a software company, what business is creating software and selling to other companies which of those 3 programmers would you hire?

Now if you are a CEO of a non-software company, what business is not creating software nor selling to other companies which of those 3 programmers would you hire?