Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment People recommend technical tests for a reason (Score 1) 809

There is a reason why people recommend having technical tests in interviews. Most interviewees fail the basic FizzBuzz test.
A lot of software engineers are bad, and this is much worse in everything related to web development.

I am a software engineer focused on low-level C and C++, and my company once needed to do some web development, a front-end for a web service we developed. We contracted someone with 8 years of experience in web development to do that, since it wasn't the kind of thing my company did.
I was in charge of working with the guy to ensure that his work met our specifications and that he called our web service correctly. The person struggled with such basic concepts as doing a HTTP request, serializing/deserializing data, and testing whether an RPC request went well. He couldn't understand our formal specifications and I had to basically write the code for him to show him what he did wrong and what he needed to do to comply.

Long story short: the level of skill an average web developer has does not meet the expectation we have of software engineering outside of the web development world.

Comment Re:It's a vast field.... (Score 1) 809

A competent software engineer with that much experience should have no problem learning any new technology quickly.
I've been successful in selling myself for jobs requiring technologies I didn't know; the client was convinced that if I could master the advanced techniques that I have, I should have no problem with other simpler ones, even if I'm inexperienced with them.

Comment Re:More liberal than libertarian (Score 1) 580

Truly smart people know that there is so much they don't know and tend to be humble as a result.

I've seen so many Google engineers from Mountain View who took themselves big experts in a field and that didn't even realize that what they were saying on the topic was ridiculous to any researcher who worked on that topic.

Comment Re:Probably sold out to CIA a long ago (Score 1) 184

4chan moves so fast that it would require a disproportionately large team to track what happens on it.
There is also a lot of specific vocabulary and way of communicating on 4chan to be able to understand what's going on, but I suppose that after enough time reading everything you'd grasp it.

Comment Re:The least welcome news (Score 1) 184

I myself find 4chan to be one of the few communities where people are not afraid of their tastes and fetishes; it's refreshing to visit something where people have opinions other than the society-sanctioned politically correct ones.

Sure, there is racism, probably some hate speech too, unusual graphic content, and plenty of offensive things, some of which might be illegal. But it's all ephemeral as boards quickly move around to new topics.

Slashdot Top Deals

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein

Working...