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cgtjsiwy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

My workplace has the opposite problem.

The company has been in dire need of programmers for years, so they hired people (including myself) without tests. However, the work involves lots of custom iterators and the occasional handcrafted parser, which most of the company is incapable of writing. The bright side is that management has their metrics mostly right, so I’m getting lots of raises for solving fun problems.

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morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ahem, uh, where are they hiring? Asking for, uh, me.

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lysdexic@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

My workplace has the opposite problem.

I don’t see that as a problem. The job description of an engineer includes dealing with new problems and onboarding onto new things. So you never wrote a parser and now you have to. That’s ok, just go ahead a and start from the ground up.

What I perceive as a major problem is the utter disconnect between what companies test for, and what companies actually do.

It makes no sense at all to evaluate candidates on obscure trivia questions no one will ever care about or use, let alone reject an applicant because they mixed up O(nlogn) with O(logn). It matters more if you know a good, healthy answer to tabs vs spaces.

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- Sigmatics@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  It matters more if you know a good, healthy answer to tabs vs spaces.
  
  You had me there, for a second
  
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FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That sounds like a win-win situation. You lucky bugger!

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