If I would notice such a requirement, I would invent the language from scratch, fake a whole website documenting that, develop a compiler (probably LLVM frontend) and apply.
We created a fake language to root out resume liars
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Brown M&M's clause, I like it.
Was it brown or green?
Brown M&Ms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IxqdAgNJck
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Do you think this would explain the status of places like LinkedIn? Long ago, it was an OK place to have an online CV. Now it is a place people use show off with non-relevant _stuff_.
LinkedIn is a weird place indeed. Every couple months or so I pop in to check something or somebody out, and my eyes briefly skim my "feed". What I've noticed over the past year or two is that people who I know personally that have much more clout and much better network than I do, particularly the ones I know from the local startup culture - the people who have no reason to visit the site - they seem to be posting a…
Unemployed middle class people who suddenly have a lot of time on their hands -- more than job hunting can possibly consume -- not to mention that many people mope around a bit (dealing with a kind of minor depression) just after fired and take a couple of weeks to get their mojo going again.
I think the "middle-class" comes from the fact that such people have cash savings to weather a job hunt, whereas people without savings have to start working pronto on whatever if they're going to be eating and roofed in two weeks.
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> The amount of people who don't know what they're doing. So many people seem to have 1-year * x experience. They reach a certain level and they just stop. Part of the problem is because people only look at years of experience at all, and recruitment often inflates the requirements. I don't need 5 years of work experience in .NET to modify an existing application with very defined and clear boundaries: within a few m…
The biggest problem is that there is no baseline of competency. Seriously, when somebody asks for minimally passable competency for employment as a software developer what do you point to in 5 words of less? Software doesn't have that so instead you get a bunch of posturing and smoke signals. Seriously think about how you would explain this to your non-developer uncle who is an educated professional of any other indu…
I can expect this experience in tooling if the tools were remotely difficult. They aren't. What's more, teams are documenting their tools much better than before, and many are putting strong emphasis on being able to search the right terms and implementing it before the end of the week. Whatever topic or problem I had on ASP.NET Core, the problem was usually solved and documented by Microsoft. At that point, expecting this much experience over such trivial matters, is just being disrespectful to the teams investing all that time documenting and polishing their tools.
Maybe that's the part which annoys me the most. The entire practice devalues everything, no matter who, what or how old you are.
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Agree with the first part, obviously, but: why shouldn't there be an unequal power dynamic between employers and candidates? Isn't that sort of true by definition in employment?
No. Employment is a trade between two entities. The employee gives labor, the employer compensates them. Ideally, the two negotiate a contract laying out the terms of employment, and move on. However, corporations typically don't offer any form of contract negotiations, at least in the US. An employee is often offered a take-it-or-leave-it contract with lots of non-compete and broad IP assignment riders, and their pa…
The fact that individual employees have little negotiating power with a large business is one of the conditions that give rise to collective bargaining agreements and unions.
Re: We created a fake language to root out resume liars
#496Almost as good as the guy who created the rockstar programming language, giving them opportunity to hire rockstar-developers.
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A mate of mine's consulting company offers a 10% discount on any work if the client buys them a plant, any plant, for the office. Apparently they've only had two clients take them up on the offer.
Why do they offer that?
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#498There's something Kafka-esque about the largest distributor of fake news creating a fake programming language.
It was a posting on Facebook not FB itself that made up the fake language.
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C# and Java the language are similar enough; the ecosystems are very different. A C# developer would mostly be expecting to develop Windows programs or possibly Windows server / IIS applications. A Java developer could be working on all kinds of different things.
Yup. Very similar language, but good luck going from ASP.NET MVC to Spring Boot without missing a beat. Or from WinForms and WPF to Swing and whatever else is new and hot in Java-land. Not to mention NuGet vs Maven, EntityFramework vs Hibernate, etc.
“Actually, you know what, I think this is not a great match”
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That's something I've noticed over the last 10 years or so as job descriptions get longer. All those new terms like React, Vue, SaaS, Azure, AWS etc. They don't really know what they mean. I was asked if I could code in Azure. This led to a weird conversation where I was trying to explain what Azure was, whilst he wouldn't listen to me and was adamant that it was a programming language.
"But can you code in API? I don't want your life story, just answer me! Do you know API?!" I'm so lucky, I think I found the best recruiter in all Vancouver. He helped me get my ideal role and was generally kind and competent. Just to offset the horror stories.
This is so real it's painful.