Re:How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (2006)
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @01:41PM
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I know of a company that hires fresh graduates, and doesn't expect them to really be able to contribute for two years. They're in Indianapolis, though, so they may have considerably fewer problems with their employees getting poached by others before they can contribute enough to pay back the training period.
My employer does exactly this, both within the R&D organization and within our services/consulting group. All new hires from college do a 3-4 week "boot camp" where they do all the common indoctrination stuff, from HR paperwork, to learning the shared tools, to a mini programming project.
Expecting a college graduate to show up ready to contribute like a 5 year veteran is ridiculous. As the parent message says, college is mostly for education, not training. Internships and co-ops fill some of the gaps, but high quality internships are few and far between.