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Re:The rise of never-ending job interviews by dnautics on Monday August 02, 2021 @09:54AM (#28036528)
> What proportion of your colleagues do you think are wildly incompetent

30%, minimum. I was hired alongside a guy with a fantastic resume. He pushed zero lines of usable code in 4 months. When he left I purged about 20 files which were tests that were just completely commented out (but I guess those count for LOC according to github's crude measure). I would say that not only was he incompetent, he was worth negative (thankfully, nothing critical) - Maybe in order to cover his tracks? he had moved certain classes of tagged tests (e.g. skip, broken) to "ignore" status instead of 'yellow star'/red dot, I now, months after his departure, have a pr reverting those changes months after because I didn't notice he had done that. Thankfully it had not covered up any major defect in our codebase (someone could have left a corner case test as "broken" with the intent to fix it later and wound up forgetting to and sending it to prod).

But hey. Programming isn't that bad. In the physical sciences it was 60-70%.

Re:The rise of never-ending job interviews by aix1 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @02:03AM (#28046128)
> about 20 files which were tests that were just completely commented out

How was this not uncovered during code reviews?

Re:The rise of never-ending job interviews by dnautics on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:09PM (#28056773)
That's a good question. I wasn't reviewing the code he pushed.