Re:T-Shaped People and Academia
by ramraj07 on Sunday January 09, 2022 @04:11AM
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What skills are you talking about? Git commit and unit testing? Not saying they’re insignificant skills but a competent PhD should be able to learn them quite fast (in a month) in a competent environment. I and many others did. The issue is that there are a large number of phds who are actually much dimmer than your average programmer, and you’re not differentiating them in the interviews.
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Re:T-Shaped People and Academia
by snovv_crash on Sunday January 09, 2022 @06:06AM
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Any programmer can learn to write a unit test. Not all can learn to design code to be easily testable. If you can't differentiate before hiring, because they don't even know how to write tests, then you're taking a big risk hiring them.
> Not saying they’re insignificant skills but a competent PhD should be able to learn them quite fast (in a month) in a competent environment. I and many others did.
They can also learn them quite fast before the interview/job, and it's a concern that they don't, when almost all other applicants do.