The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

Re:The new hire who showed up is not the same person we inte... by smm11 on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:25PM (#30156296)

Uh, git is how old? "Engineers with vastly more experience" might be how old?

Hate to tell you, but these engineers probably wrote code pre-Google, or pre-WWW, and actually got stuff done. Amazing, that.

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Re:The new hire who showed up is not the same person we inte... by mellavora on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:03AM (#30160194)

Timeline of Github: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_GitHub

suggests that things really got started in 2013.

Thus anyone with over (2022 - 2013 approx 9 years) of experience might have had substantial pre-git experience.

Noting as well that even post 2013, github might not have been the default in many organizations.

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Re:The new hire who showed up is not the same person we inte... by worik on Monday January 31, 2022 @07:54PM (#30157194)

Heaps of us.

A stack of manuals several feet thick...

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Re:The new hire who showed up is not the same person we inte... by Spooky23 on Monday January 31, 2022 @08:03PM (#30157273)

I started at the end of this era, working on a monitoring team that supported mainframes, network and data center systems. My second week on the job, my delivery of books arrived. About 30 linear feet of documentation. Iirc, it was part of our ELA.

I kept a couple of the references that I spent a lot of time in, along with my Perl books. Good times.

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