Re:The digital native is a myth
by flukus on Monday July 31, 2017 @02:01AM
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In MS land it's very common for developers to be unwilling or unable to use the command line. The two groups where this is most notable are the younger devs and the ones that come to development via the access/vb classic path. To them if something can't be done in visual studio then it can't be done.
One of our code tests for hiring is writing a very simple version of grep with only a few flags like case sensitive, recursive and inverted. Of the 10 or so people that kind of completed it, not a single person seemed to understand that multiple flags could be specified (in any format).
One of our code tests for hiring is writing a very simple version of grep with only a few flags like case sensitive, recursive and inverted. Of the 10 or so people that kind of completed it, not a single person seemed to understand that multiple flags could be specified (in any format).