Re:Hire people who aren’t proven
by analog31 on Thursday September 27, 2018 @11:26AM
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It's my job. ;-)
With all the caveats about dividing people into types, I think you need the curious / tinkerer types, and also the solid / bureaucrat types. At least, this is true if your business has reached a size where scaling is an issue.
I'm of the curious / tinkerer type, but putting a bunch of people like me on a project where the customer expects a 20 year service life, and operations expects to maintain their sanity, is not recommended.
In my view, starting from scratch in college and learning programming in a classroom may be harder than learning it by trial and error in your spare time.
With all the caveats about dividing people into types, I think you need the curious / tinkerer types, and also the solid / bureaucrat types. At least, this is true if your business has reached a size where scaling is an issue.
I'm of the curious / tinkerer type, but putting a bunch of people like me on a project where the customer expects a 20 year service life, and operations expects to maintain their sanity, is not recommended.
In my view, starting from scratch in college and learning programming in a classroom may be harder than learning it by trial and error in your spare time.