Re:Ask HN: How long does it take to hire a good developer?
by killtimeatwork on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @06:25AM
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>> what's the point of grades anyway
> To get a good job :p
That's the thing - in my country (Poland) nobody looks at grades anyway. The only exceptions are American companies that have offices there. Everybody else cares very much about the kind of University you graduated from (I think they mostly treat it as a proxy for general IQ and work ethic - best Polish schools for CS have admission rate of 7-10%), but don't care about grades.
> About 20 years ago, it was also common sense that a CS degree from Caltech means more than a 3 month Rails bootcamp, but now they're all treated the same.
Maybe because coding just got easier? I have a junior guy on my team that barely comprehends how computers work under the hood. However, he's still quite productive in an advanced/esoteric functional programming language. He just needs a little guidance by a senior to debug some less obvious issues or to review his designs to make sure they're not a performance catastrophe. Meanwhile, 20 years ago he'd just add a ton of segfaults to a C++ codebase and be fired...
That's the thing - in my country (Poland) nobody looks at grades anyway. The only exceptions are American companies that have offices there. Everybody else cares very much about the kind of University you graduated from (I think they mostly treat it as a proxy for general IQ and work ethic - best Polish schools for CS have admission rate of 7-10%), but don't care about grades.
> About 20 years ago, it was also common sense that a CS degree from Caltech means more than a 3 month Rails bootcamp, but now they're all treated the same.
Maybe because coding just got easier? I have a junior guy on my team that barely comprehends how computers work under the hood. However, he's still quite productive in an advanced/esoteric functional programming language. He just needs a little guidance by a senior to debug some less obvious issues or to review his designs to make sure they're not a performance catastrophe. Meanwhile, 20 years ago he'd just add a ton of segfaults to a C++ codebase and be fired...