blog.revsys.com— An article on why hiring average, or even below average, programmers costs your company more money than it saves. Tips for hiring experts.
Aug 5, 2007View in Crawl 4
When looking for a job, you shouldn't be a new programmer, you should be a programmer who has been programming since he was 12, possibly went to college for whatever reason, and is now an experienced programmer who doesn't have any workplace experience. That's how programmers just out of college should get hired into a workplace in an expert (as far as this article is concerned) position. I firmly believe that people who weren't programming (whether it be computers, circuit boards or something similar) prior to the age of 15 can't become these expert programmers due to not having the needed neurological pathways created from programming at a young age. No one enters the field as experts but only a minority even enter the field with the potential to be experts. Think back to your high school days, depending on how old you are, only a handful of people were heavily involved with computers (in regards to programming and systems administration), most of those are the kids who if they continued to pursue technology are the ones who will enter the field with potential to be experts. All the kids who were your average "have a good time" (can't think of a better summary of the average high school kid) who didn't decide until they were out of high school getting ready to chose a career turn out to be the average and below average programmers the article talks about.
I would not lump Chinese with Indian programmers, based on my experience. I've had good experiences with Chinese engineers, and numerous bad experiences with Indian engineers. I'll say that every project we've ever done with India eventually has to be recoded properly. While the Chinese engineers tend to use poor quality materials in building things, I've found their software to be fine.
saranagatiAug 7, 2007
When looking for a job, you shouldn't be a new programmer, you should be a programmer who has been programming since he was 12, possibly went to college for whatever reason, and is now an experienced programmer who doesn't have any workplace experience. That's how programmers just out of college should get hired into a workplace in an expert (as far as this article is concerned) position. I firmly believe that people who weren't programming (whether it be computers, circuit boards or something similar) prior to the age of 15 can't become these expert programmers due to not having the needed neurological pathways created from programming at a young age. No one enters the field as experts but only a minority even enter the field with the potential to be experts. Think back to your high school days, depending on how old you are, only a handful of people were heavily involved with computers (in regards to programming and systems administration), most of those are the kids who if they continued to pursue technology are the ones who will enter the field with potential to be experts. All the kids who were your average "have a good time" (can't think of a better summary of the average high school kid) who didn't decide until they were out of high school getting ready to chose a career turn out to be the average and below average programmers the article talks about.
Closed AccountAug 7, 2007
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jabelarAug 7, 2007
I would not lump Chinese with Indian programmers, based on my experience. I've had good experiences with Chinese engineers, and numerous bad experiences with Indian engineers. I'll say that every project we've ever done with India eventually has to be recoded properly. While the Chinese engineers tend to use poor quality materials in building things, I've found their software to be fine.
lordofshadowsAug 7, 2007
The emphasis on perl made me lol. If only we could find a *perl* programmer. hilarious.
Closed AccountAug 8, 2007
Have you considered freelancing or maybe even starting your own company?
lordofshadowsAug 9, 2007
Agreed.
oolatin79Aug 11, 2007
That was a freaking hilarious comment.....1's and 0's FTW
Closed AccountSep 6, 2007
hahah I was thinking that as I read this.
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