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Re:The real reason you can't hire developers.... by jebblue on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @01:57PM (#3353093)
"Dunning-Kruger" "doesn't demonstrate the self-awareness the best developers seem to possess" "requisite introspective capability" "I do interviews"

Really? Do you pay bills with your code?

"To put it bluntly" "you're less competent than you think you are"

To put it bluntly you sound like a pretentious arse.

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Re:The real reason you can't hire developers.... by bigohms on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @02:38PM (#3353247)
And looking back on the posters comment history, I would tend to agree. There is tons of absolutes, argumentation and quite a lack of tact.
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Re:The real reason you can't hire developers.... by jemfinch on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @04:07PM (#3353585)
I'm interested in which particular comments you think demonstrate a lack of tact, and how you would improve them to be more tactful, if you have the time.
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Re:The real reason you can't hire developers.... by dpe82 on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @06:24PM (#3354200)
This one. The tactful thing would be to first accept the possibility you may at times come off as a bit conceited before asking for evidence and advice.
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Re:The real reason you can't hire developers.... by efsavage on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @04:30PM (#3353667)
Maybe I'm similar, but I can say that based on comments I've seen here I'd be far more likely to email jemfinch back than up_and_up.
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Re:The real reason you can't hire developers.... by rbrcurtis on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @04:46PM (#3353757)
I think it really depends on the company you are hiring for. At my present one, personality is absolutely as important as skill, so if you sound like a pretentious snob we probably won't be interested in you. At my last company (a fortune 500), if you sounded like the OP, we definitely wouldn't get back to you.
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