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The Story of Engineering Education in India

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Re: The Story of Engineering Education in India

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Having interviewed 100+ candidates in past 2 years for my own startup and a similar number before in my previous job, I completely understand what the author is trying to say. Believe me when I say that 90% of my interviews simply stop at the first question (Can you write a function in C which given an integer array and its size as arguments, returns the number of zeros in an array?). My interview then turns in a sma…

I'm in the process of converting my team of 50ish programmers in Chennai into a DevOps and "legacy apps support" org because finding people with the necessary current skills is proving too difficult. And by "current" I'm talking basic stuff like javascript competency, an understanding of what MVC is (versus dragging toolbox controls onto a webform and writing a couple lines of databinding), and the impossibility of h…

>>>>by the time someone is contributing they're already either looking for a new job or expecting promotions and salary hikes in the 20-50% per annum range ----------

What is wrong with that?

Have you made them sign a service contract? I bet , you did. Did you confiscate their original + official documents? You almost did that.

Why do you hire people with "literally 0 skills" in the first place?

Why? Why?

Because you could get away with paying them 5K per month.

Why are you blaming others? Why are you blaming the cost of hiring?

If you have good work to do , you have to hire good people to do the work , and have to pay them good.

But your primary concern is to find people who can be bullied/exploited at severely less cost.

Hence you are ranting about the the lack of skills.

This body shopping attitude of yours deserves nothing but people who leave your company as soon as possible for them.

Your company wants to make profit , not create value , I wish no one stayed at your company after their contract period gets over.

Storm is coming , Mr . Eitally.

Stop blaming , stop ranting about lack of skills in someone else ,Speak the truth - You are finding it hard to find bodies to whore them.

That is truth.

I hate you and your company.

Re: The Story of Engineering Education in India

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I call BS on that attitude. First, the author was making a generic point. Your contribution is to point out some silly exception. However, if a 20 year old had the driver's code, he can learn to look at the code of similar driver's or failing that learn to read the code, and run them through a kernel-level debugger. If he doesn't know how to do that, there are resources available on the internet to show him how.

Where do you find a similar iscsi driver code written for windows NT

Similar to what?

Here's a link to the open source linux version: http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/

Also check out this site for more info: http://www.open-iscsi.org/

The Windows DDK is a good source of sample driver code. If you are a MSDN subscriber, you would be able to find it as part of your collection ( or available for download online )

Beyond that, i suggest contacting MS tech support.

Re: The Story of Engineering Education in India

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Where do you find a similar iscsi driver code written for windows NT

Similar to what? Here's a link to the open source linux version: http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/ Also check out this site for more info: http://www.open-iscsi.org/ The Windows DDK is a good source of sample driver code. If you are a MSDN subscriber, you would be able to find it as part of your collection ( or available for download online ) Beyond that, i suggest contacting MS tech support.

I know all of this

my point is how do you deal with the pain of supporting code written by someone else years ago?

Re: The Story of Engineering Education in India

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Similar to what? Here's a link to the open source linux version: http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/ Also check out this site for more info: http://www.open-iscsi.org/ The Windows DDK is a good source of sample driver code. If you are a MSDN subscriber, you would be able to find it as part of your collection ( or available for download online ) Beyond that, i suggest contacting MS tech support.

I know all of this my point is how do you deal with the pain of supporting code written by someone else years ago?

If you knew all this why ask a specific question?

I am really trying hard to take you seriously and not treat you like a troll.

As far as supporting code written by someone else years ago, that's just the nature of programming. If you find it too painful, get out of this industry, find something you truly enjoy and do your best in that area.

Life is too short to be struck doing something you really don't enjoy.

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