In the land of hiring technical people

[dsrtao]

A word of advice for recent graduates (and, indeed, anyone seeking employment in a technical field):

if you do not understand what the job is, do not bother applying for it.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I think such people fall into the same categories as the "1-percenters". Y'know, the ones who ask every woman they meet "will you sleep with me?" because "there's that 1% out there who say yes..."

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

A young man I was briefly courting earlier this year claims he used to go to nightclubs and simply walk around asking women that question, and get a 25% yes rate (with a 50% no rate and a 25% slap rate). I think he actually believed this story would impress me.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I have always followed the theory that if I do not immediately know the acronyms, I am not going to apply.

[dsrtao]

Indeed, in this case my company is looking for an extremely skilled, very experienced programmer. So far, one recent CS grad who has never had an in-industry job, and one webmonkey, Microsoft-division.

[robertdfeinman.livejournal.com]

As the current mob in Washington demonstrates, incompetence is no bar to employment. Given this example, why shouldn't regular folks take a chance as well?

I once hired a totally incompetent programmer. After I gave up on his ability to write code I assigned him the job of writing up the user manual. He couldn't do that either.

The saddest cases I saw were guys who had been laid off by Grumman and were experts in some arcane languages used only by the military. They had no experience with everything else that had been going on for prior 20 years. The moral is, keep up your skills...