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There is plenty of precedent for this, during the dotcom days and in India the last 10 years.
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Standardized testing doesn't measure the same skills needed to be successful at creative work. Please don't ever do this.
Sure, that's why every college relies on them for admissions, not to mention everyone taking the GRE / MCAT for grad school. Are applied sciences grad programs not "creative work" in your mind? Standardized tests statistically predict success within those programs. http://portal.scienceintheclassroom.org/sites/default/files/...
It's a great idea but the reason why this won't work is because after you have invested time to train them from nothing, they will leave for another company. There is plenty of precedent for this, during the dotcom days and in India the last 10 years.
What happens if we invest in our people and they leave? What if we don't, and they stay?
It's a great idea but the reason why this won't work is because after you have invested time to train them from nothing, they will leave for another company. There is plenty of precedent for this, during the dotcom days and in India the last 10 years.
I'm reminded of the cliche posts I see on LinkedIn about this. What happens if we invest in our people and they leave? What if we don't, and they stay?
Isn't this what they do in Germany? http://tobi.lutke.com/blogs/news/11280301-the-apprentice-pro...
"They did things differently than everyone else. Most of the company used an esoteric programming environment called Rosie SQL - which seemed like death to my Demo Szene honed sensibilities (Assembler, Pascal or bust!) - these guys used Delphi."
MathWorks is doing a similar thing to
"The first 3 months in the cafeteria meant I quickly met everyone in the company and learned what kind of coffee or tea they liked."
Mathworks starts everyone off in support, to make sure they know the products and the customers.
Teaching people to develop software is hard. It requires commitment. In the framework author is describing if those people want to succeed they will not be able to do it part time while doing non-technical work for you. Also rubber ducking with the actual developer takes a lot of developer's time (and it's hard) - so the organization will take a big productivity hit if developers work half time as programming teacher…
But if you want to grow, it's not reasonable to expect to walk down to the 7/11 and get someone who is perfect for your company. Training is hard? Growth is hard. Who promised you that running a business would be easy?
I've done both of those jobs and they've both required me already knowing how to code, writing code, and having a CS degree. I think it's sort of ironic that he manages to devalue the very same non-software engineering skills he ostensibly says to value.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Standardized testing doesn't measure the same skills needed to be successful at creative work. Please don't ever do this.
Sure, that's why every college relies on them for admissions, not to mention everyone taking the GRE / MCAT for grad school. Are applied sciences grad programs not "creative work" in your mind? Standardized tests statistically predict success within those programs. http://portal.scienceintheclassroom.org/sites/default/files/...