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Re:Why We Hire Great Developers, Not Great Mobile Developers by chrisseaton on Monday January 11, 2016 @09:12AM (#10880816)
Do you really think any random programmer can master any given field of computer science in just a few months of starting a job? You could take a compiler engineer and get them doing cryptography, or a cryptographer and get them to write a compiler? No need for any experience to work in either of those fields? Just some JS or Android experience would be fine and you can use Stack Overflow to work out the rest of the details?
Re:Why We Hire Great Developers, Not Great Mobile Developers by AznHisoka on Monday January 11, 2016 @09:15AM (#10880831)
Agreed. I think OP's advice only applies to programming languages, and frameworks. But not concepts like machine learning, cryptography, compilers, algorithm design, distributed systems, etc. For those, actual experience does matter.