On Secretly Terrible Engineers

Re:On Secretly Terrible Engineers by ajuc on Sunday March 08, 2015 @05:03PM (#9167247)

I heard this many times, and yet I've never encountered them in my career. I was even interviewing for a while and none of the candidates were as bad as people say.

Some wrote C or pseudocode on Java interview but pseudocode made sense and they could explain it.

I wonder if people with such experiences interview candidates without degree in CS (it's free where I live so it acts as a good filter). Basicaly unless you are on 3rd-5th year of CS degree or graduated, or worked as a programmer - you will have problems with getting to interview.

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Re:On Secretly Terrible Engineers by ZoFreX on Sunday March 08, 2015 @07:22PM (#9167839)

I'd say somewhere between 1 in 3 and 1 in 6 people that graduated with me (from a decent university!) could not actually program at the end of their three or four years.

That said, the same goes for at least two of the professors...

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Re:On Secretly Terrible Engineers by nkozyra on Monday March 09, 2015 @08:14AM (#9170469)

Well given how little time is spent on teaching actual programming/coding at a university, this isn't totally surprising.

Writing code is the easy part, after all.

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