We only hire the trendiest
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We only hire the trendiest
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Re: We only hire the trendiest
#2Experienced devs are super annoying; telling you it's not a good idea to replace your GUI stack with a browser and whatnot.
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#3> Sometimes people don’t agree (e.g., it took months to get the non-version-control-using-team to use version control)
There's an easy way to stop that sort of attitude. The next time that a bug occurs, you tell that team that they must restore the code back to what it was previously, and provide diffs that show what they did so that you can review their rollback.
When they say they can't, you tell them that's their problem as they haven't implemented version control because they believed they didn't need it, and they need to go do it anyway. After they go through this exercise, you then offer to help them to implement version control.
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#4Experienced devs are super annoying; telling you it's not a good idea to replace your GUI stack with a browser and whatnot.
Not as annoying as junior devs who refuse to take your advice
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#5Experienced devs are super annoying; telling you it's not a good idea to replace your GUI stack with a browser and whatnot.
And they prefer using uncool tools intelligently to solve a complex problem; rather than using the next cool thing dumbly that creates more problems than it solves.
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#6What does a "trendy" resume look like in 2016?
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#7The abundance and heterogeneity of various technology stacks, frameworks, methodologies and whatnot fuels this hiring mess. Twenty-five years ago, nearly everyone who called himself a programmer knew C and an interviewer could judge the relative strength of two candidates by really examining their programming skills and not some trendy keywords.
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#8> Sometimes people don’t agree (e.g., it took months to get the non-version-control-using-team to use version control) There's an easy way to stop that sort of attitude. The next time that a bug occurs, you tell that team that they must restore the code back to what it was previously, and provide diffs that show what they did so that you can review their rollback. When they say they can't, you tell them that's their…
If you're in a position to insist on them doing that, you're probably in a position to just insist they use version control in the first place...
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#9Is the anti windows/.NET bias really that common? I have been a .NET dev for 6 years because that was my job. But I don`t believe that makes me useless on any other stack. In fact lately I desire to work on something that feels exciting and fresh again but sometimes I feel like .NET devs are looked down upon and it`s not so easy to land a job or contract outside .Net land.
Re: We only hire the trendiest
#10> Sometimes people don’t agree (e.g., it took months to get the non-version-control-using-team to use version control) There's an easy way to stop that sort of attitude. The next time that a bug occurs, you tell that team that they must restore the code back to what it was previously, and provide diffs that show what they did so that you can review their rollback. When they say they can't, you tell them that's their…
That's not actually going to achieve anything other than making an already stressed team more stressed with a side of hatred for you and your pointless request.
In this day and age I'm not sure how you do persuade a team to use version control other than mandating it and sucking up the hostility while they settle in, but taking the opportunity to make a smug point while a team is firefighting isn't the way.