Re:The Engineer Crunch
by dgabriel on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @03:38PM
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For some companies the standards are not entirely meaningful. Must have 3.9 GPA from an Ivy League school, know [obscure library] in detail, have experience in Scala and Lua and OCaml and Julia, as well as a deep passion for cricket. Then, once this person is found, they put them to work building a Rails CRUD app... There is some hyperbole here, but not too much.
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Re:The Engineer Crunch
by danielweber on Tuesday February 18, 2014 @03:45PM
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I think I lost one job because I used emacs and they used vi.
I'm not wholly disappointed, because 1) I finally got around to using vi, spending a solid week using it and only it, as my homework[1] for the company, and 2) you don't want to work someone that only hires clones of themselves.
[1] They didn't assign it to me, but I'm always looking for something interesting to do, and since I was serious about wanting to work for them I did it to ease my eventual on-boarding.
A company-specified text editor is a indicator of an unbearable degree of micromanagement.
Be happy you don't work there.
Re:The Engineer Crunch
by danielweber on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @08:32AM
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They did a lot of pair-coding, so I'd see a common development environment as acceptable.
Re:The Engineer Crunch
by mattgreenrocks on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @03:22PM
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Sounds like one of those 'boutique' consulting agencies that likes to build 100% mandatory pairing into their costs when billing clients for their sake.
Are you sure you didn't get the job because you used emacs? I can't see why that's a reason for not hiring you. As markrages says, if this is true, it's some inconceivable degree of micromanagement.
Re:The Engineer Crunch
by mattgreenrocks on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @03:20PM
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This comment is the vulgar truth.
The industry wants hordes of people who color by number with the newest frameworks, not hackers.