Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice?
by geebee on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:57PM
(#18858369)
I'll agree, you were making a more narrow point that there are in fact a lot of candidates who can't do extremely simple coding exercises (I agree about that as well)
This assertion is often mis-used (a slight of hand to resolve the question of why companies reject so many candidates yet claim that anyone competent will find "100 companies that will hire you today".)
However, you were not making that second assertion, you were insisting that something that is real is not a myth, fair enough.
It's also not my point at all.
The comment I was responding to was advocating that there is a myth surrounding the flood of people who don't know how to code. This is not a myth.
Doubling an array of integers is one of the easiest questions I can possibly think of, and use it to build interviewee confidence as a warm-up before diving into pragmatic questions related to the job.
Unfortunately, there is a not insignificant number of candidates who claim experience and yet are unable to write `.map(x => x * 2)` or use a for loop.