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Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by zingar on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:32AM (#26221497)
My current employers hire +- 1/100 applicants. The vast majority fall off before even getting to a coding test. Of the last 20, most are not fluent with conditional logic and iteration, or cannot use a dictionary in an algorithm. In the most recent interview, an "experienced" React developer could not set properties on a JS object.
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by jjav on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:10AM (#26221668)
When an interview process produces the output 'doesn't know how to do basic things' on a "vast majority" of experienced people who've been doing said things daily for years, the most obvious conclusion is that the interview process is flawed.
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by ZephyrBlu on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:07PM (#26230629)
Why do you think this occurs? It doesn't make sense that people apply for a programming job without being able to do any programming...
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) by zingar on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:26AM (#26383712)
I think it's because they have some success with making wordpress do what they want (after a fashion), or copy and paste some Javscript. That makes them a programmer, without knowing what they don't know, even 10 years later.