Wat

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmers-program.html

How does this make you feel?

In my company they hired 3 PHP programmers, from like 30 applicants. They made written and practical tests to each one, so they could pick the best.

Now, a month later, all 3 programmers were fired.

>>2
Why? Lack of competence?

>>3
One guy just didn't have the will to program. He was stuck on a problem and didn't advance until someone asked "what are you working at?". Zero proactivity. After checking the logs from the proxy, we saw that he spent all day only on facebook and silly websites. He only 'worked' two weeks.

The other two guys were "too slow". They worked, they made questions, but tasks like doing a form in php (with the stored procedures, and all referent to that) took them too long.

Those guys were hired to help our only competent PHP programmer, and take more projects from our clients. Now, he is still alone, and is capable of taking whole projects by himself, and the two last guys were only slowing him. If fact, the guys were fired because he said they were not competent enough.

>>4
Damn. Why apply for a job if you don't plan on doing it? Silly people.

>>4
And I thought Kodak was brutal.

>>6
That isn't brutal. That is how jobs work.

>>7
Well, at least here, some of the brighter foolholios get reassigned to tech support. And every once in a while, the foolholio will get their act together, and not only get out of tech support, but also, will do something really really spectacular.

I was just about to skimp on doing some of the excersizes in my book. Now I am afraid to.

>>9
DO THEM ALL!

I think part of the big problem is that students do not realize they do not know anything, believing that what they are tested on is all there is to it.

There are no room for the lazy and the weak. We must rid ourselves of the mental midgets!

>>12
Laziness is the first virtue of programmers. Seriously, look it up.

>>10
But I wrote in Java for years structs are almost exactly like objects I don't want to okay fine

>>11

This is often it. People oversimplify what they don't yet fully understand, and they are then surprised when they are confronted with the real thing.