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May 7, 2011 09:30 pm GMT
We've all lived the nightmare. A new developer shows up at work, and you try to be welcoming, but he1 can't seem to get up to speed; the questions he asks reveal basic ignorance; and his work, when it finally emerges, is so kludgey that it ultimately must be rewritten from scratch by more competent people. And yet his interviewers"and/or the HR department, if your company has been infested by that bureaucratic parasite"swear that they only hire above-average/A-level/top-1% people.It's a big problem, especially now. There's a boom on. I get harassing emails from recruiters every day. Everyone's desperate to hire developers"but developers are not fungible. A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity. Hiring a mediocre or bad developer is a terrible mistake for any organization; for a startup, it can be a catastrophic company-killer. So how can it happen so often?Like many of the hangovers that haunt modern software engineering, this is ultimately mostly Microsoft's fault.2
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Why The New Guy Can't Code
We've all lived the nightmare. A new developer shows up at work, and you try to be welcoming, but he1 can't seem to get up to speed; the questions he asks reveal basic ignorance; and his work, when it finally emerges, is so kludgey that it ultimately must be rewritten from scratch by more competent people. And yet his interviewers"and/or the HR department, if your company has been infested by that bureaucratic parasite"swear that they only hire above-average/A-level/top-1% people.It's a big problem, especially now. There's a boom on. I get harassing emails from recruiters every day. Everyone's desperate to hire developers"but developers are not fungible. A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity. Hiring a mediocre or bad developer is a terrible mistake for any organization; for a startup, it can be a catastrophic company-killer. So how can it happen so often?Like many of the hangovers that haunt modern software engineering, this is ultimately mostly Microsoft's fault.2Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/3tjpM3YBNAw/
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