Comments on: Tech CVs: the lies ! the lies !

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:29:49 +0000

Employer job descriptions: the lies! The lies!

By: sk

sk — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:48:09 +0000

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By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:22:38 +0000

“For most of the developers working in the industry, coding is about cut and paste“. Shocking maybe – but realistically it’s true.

So its better to type all your code out over and over again rather than say, use the clipboard? That’s just silly! How does being an inefficient keyboardist make you a better programmer?

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By: binil

binil — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:42:08 +0000

Here is a funny post on the other half of this problem.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:00:46 +0000

What do you mean by “Why some numbers are immutable” under Python? All numbers are immutable in Python. You’re fired!

By: Buu Nguyen’s Blog » Blog Archive » Tech CVs lie!!!

Buu Nguyen’s Blog » Blog Archive » Tech CVs lie!!! — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:13:22 +0000

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By: Imran On Tech » Who needs good software developers anyway ?

Imran On Tech » Who needs good software developers anyway ? — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:19:57 +0000

[...] One of the interesting replies to my previous post on developer recruitment was a claim that shocked many of my other readers – the essence is captured in the following quote: “For most of the developers working in the industry, coding is about cut and paste“. Shocking maybe – but realistically it’s true. [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:03:14 +0000

Agree with Binil.

My favourite illustration of this that a job agency person said to me was:

“Well, I see you have done quite a bit of XSLT. But tell me, have you ever done XSL?”.

Most job agency people do a lot of keyword matching (coupled with years experience) and have no idea what XSLT, XSL or any other technology really is.

By: Dimitris Staikos

Dimitris Staikos — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:12:41 +0000

The funny thing is that in order to screen out candidates that are lying or outright incompetent you have to make some really “silly” questions at the beginning of the interview, and guess what… that makes you look really silly to serious candidates, at least for some crucial moments.
Having done several interviews (being the interviewer) I have seen times and again the look of surprise and disbelief on a candidate’s face when I ask “Do you know what binary search is?”
Certainly at that moment they think that they’ve just wasted an interview, and the company has sent a moron to interview them. Then I have to explain that “hey you know we get lots of people coming for interviews who don’t even know what binary search is, so you know I have to ask some really basic stuff before we move on to the more advanced”.
My experience is that however promising the candidate looks you better ask the basic stuff as well. It is never a waste of time.
Probably the funniest incident I ever came across was a guy applying for a C++/MFC position. When I asked him to sketch for me on paper a function in C that takes as input an array of integers and returns their sum he froze for about 5 seconds and then said… “Could we arrange an interview for next week so I can take a better look at my notes?” What can I say?