Re:On Secretly Terrible Engineers
by vidarh on Monday March 09, 2015 @11:00AM
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As long as they're honest about it upfront, and provide honest feedback through the process, I don't really see that as cynical at all.
Having someone take a risk on you and be prepared to invest in teaching you necessarily will come with obligations to deliver, and even if it doesn't work out chances are you're better off (hopefully you'll have learned something even if it worst case is just that you're not cut out for that work) than when you started.
We could use a lot more of that for people to get past the initial challenge of making the move into industry after graduating. Especially given that so many areas mostly have CS heavy courses rather than software engineering.
Having someone take a risk on you and be prepared to invest in teaching you necessarily will come with obligations to deliver, and even if it doesn't work out chances are you're better off (hopefully you'll have learned something even if it worst case is just that you're not cut out for that work) than when you started.
We could use a lot more of that for people to get past the initial challenge of making the move into industry after graduating. Especially given that so many areas mostly have CS heavy courses rather than software engineering.