Re:In South Korea, a Protester’s Lone Fight Against Samsung
by rasz on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @10:00AM
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This is the exact history of Tetsuya Iida, Sony programmer responsible for PS2 software compatibility layer.
"I had no real electrical engineering skills to speak of whatsoever and I didn’t even know how to boot up Windows 3.1, let alone how to write any programs. Even now, I can’t help but wonder what people at Sony saw in me when they decided to hire me.
Luckily, I got the chance to learn how to program computers thanks to a training program that the company ran. "
"I had no real electrical engineering skills to speak of whatsoever and I didn’t even know how to boot up Windows 3.1, let alone how to write any programs. Even now, I can’t help but wonder what people at Sony saw in me when they decided to hire me. Luckily, I got the chance to learn how to program computers thanks to a training program that the company ran. "
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22501566 https://medium.com/@freelansations/the-story-of-the-ps2s-bac...
TLDR: this seems to be standard Asian hiring practice.