Re:People suck at technical interviews (2014)
by scottlamb on Friday June 10, 2016 @08:26PM
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I agree. Deciphering legacy systems, integrating them, debugging them, and finding minimal safe fixes involves a whole set of legitimate, resume-worthy skills.
> Doing ad-hoc reporting is the IT equivalent of being a short order cook.
Nice analogy.
I used to do a fair amount of ad-hoc reporting on an Oracle database. I used joins (inner and outer), subselects (or self-joins), aggregates, window functions (or whatever Oracle equivalent existed at the time), etc. I'd never hire someone who said they did ad-hoc reporting with SQL but didn't know joins, and I'd be skeptical of someone who didn't know some of these other concepts.
> Doing ad-hoc reporting is the IT equivalent of being a short order cook.
Nice analogy.
I used to do a fair amount of ad-hoc reporting on an Oracle database. I used joins (inner and outer), subselects (or self-joins), aggregates, window functions (or whatever Oracle equivalent existed at the time), etc. I'd never hire someone who said they did ad-hoc reporting with SQL but didn't know joins, and I'd be skeptical of someone who didn't know some of these other concepts.