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Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by Benjammer on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:28PM (#22331912)
Yet, the people who pass the grueling gauntlet will still be dumped on a fringe feature team with a first- or second-time engineering manager within 2 years of your age, and a PM that's fresh out of college (or worse, just finished MBA) who is spending 100% of their time learning how to use Jira instead of how to build product.
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Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by octoboto on Friday February 14, 2020 @09:17PM (#22332656)
This new trend of hiring PMs straight out of college seems like insanity to me
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Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by runawaybottle on Saturday February 15, 2020 @02:15PM (#22337252)
Oh this trend. I sit next to a recruiter at a large company that literally vets college grads all day for PM and scrum master positions. Like people with zero experience dealing with deadlines, requirements, resource management, time management, release cycle experience.

Oh, and I’ll just leave off ‘software development’ experience from that list too, since they also all come from non coding backgrounds.

What’s the rationale behind this one, anyone got anything? I’m stumped.

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Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by VHRanger on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:35PM (#22333034)
MBAs ruining another industry
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Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by mattrp on Saturday February 15, 2020 @01:21AM (#22333654)
That’s what I don’t get - they spend so much time hiring for these narrow skill sets and then the guy next to you takes longer than five minutes to figure out Jira.
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Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by Aeolun on Saturday February 15, 2020 @07:21AM (#22334816)
Generally I don’t think it’s the engineering team that delays the project.
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