Re:Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees
by 72deluxe on Thursday August 18, 2016 @08:54AM
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I am really confused - how can you be a Java developer and never use a "for" loop or know how to write one????
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Re:Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees
by BinaryIdiot on Thursday August 18, 2016 @01:38PM
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Not really sure I can give you an acceptable answer here (I know I felt the same). Essentially we were told "interview X, he or she is a CSC employee working with Y title in Z group". I suspect many of them have become non-developing architects or technical managers or something. Some of my colleagues had a tiny bit better luck but for the most part the developers we interviewed didn't really know much about programming.
To add some context we were part of a larger group at CSC that handles government contracts and you essentially only make money when you fully staff a contract so many folks in the industry referred to them as "butts-in-seats" contracting so it's not entirely surprising.