{"id":391,"date":"2020-02-19T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T14:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2020-02-19T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T14:02:00","slug":"a-horrifying-look-into-dev-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"A Horrifying Look into Dev Hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jarednelsen.dev\/posts\/The-horrifically-dystopian-world-of-software-engineering-interviews\">post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jarednelsen.dev\/pages\/about\">Jared Nelson<\/a> is a look into the modern hiring practices of large technology companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have to say that his summary items at the end are especially damning &#8211; organizations are hammering people on algorithms that they know not only that they will never use, but aren&#8217;t even remotely close to relevant.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know when I&#8217;m hiring a developer I care much less about their ability to implement any particular algorithm &#8211; chances are someone already has it wrapped up in a library for free and easy use.  What matters is that they know how to understand that what they&#8217;re trying to do is probably a solved problem that they just need to go find the solution for.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another item to consider is the type of company you&#8217;re looking at.  I imagine most companies looking for someone to develop a standard line of business app will be a lot less focused on algorithms and more focused on more relevant, actionable skills.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, Jared&#8217;s post is long, but very much worth taking the time to read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post by Jared Nelson is a look into the modern hiring practices of large technology companies. I have to say that his summary items at the end are especially damning &#8211; organizations are hammering people on algorithms that they know not only that they will never use, but aren&#8217;t even remotely close to relevant. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}