Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role

Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by jameshart on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @10:28PM (#16918250)

Ah. Did I not mention that these CSV files I wanted you to parse... they're generated by an old mainframe system we can't modify the sourcecode to. It does have a few idiosyncracies - for fields like addresses which can contain commas, it uses a special escape sequence where the field just consists of three asterisks, then the value for that field is the content of the next line. Oh, and it uses just CR characters for linebreaks. In EBCDIC.

Can your pandas library handle that?

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by walshemj on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:50PM (#16927091)

So presumably the mainframe has code that can parse these non standard files? Just take that code and build "on the mainframe" a tool that converts their non standard csv to something more usable.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by jameshart on Friday April 27, 2018 @09:23AM (#16940580)

Great. Can you show me on the whiteboard what the code for that tool might look like?

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