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Originally posted by kaiser78 View PostI think this is the weirdest thread I have ever read on this site - is it just me or am I missing something ???
Old guys just moaning that young people are better at software development then them.
Surprised there hasn't been any comments about the immigrant offshore teams taking all the jobs from hard working British people.Comment
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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostBlimey these guys this morning looked like they needed some milk, cookies and nap time.
Does your Mum know your here?
Referring back to coding technologies they "had heard of", which seemed like yesterday.
Stop the planet, I want to get off.Comment
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Originally posted by blackeye View PostOld guys just moaning that young people are better at software development then them.
Surprised there hasn't been any comments about the immigrant offshore teams taking all the jobs from hard working British people.
An Egyptian lady
A Romanian lady
2 in house English guys 1 is 55 and 1 is 25
An American guy
We also have
A German BA lady
An Indian ux designer
An Indian devopps guy
The tech stack we are using is completely new to the 2 in-house guys - the one who is doing best is the old guy not the young guy.
But as a team we have a huge delivery velocity.
So things go well really.Comment
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Originally posted by original PM View Post
But as a team we have a huge delivery velocity.Comment
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Things to avoid in interview
You don't want to alienate the interviewer. By referring to old technologies in order to emphasise your experience you effectively alienated him. You need to extract the relevant experience from these old technologies only.
For example: rather than talk about using RPC on a project, talk about how you learned not to build chatty interfaces on distributed apps, because the cost of doing the networking is the expensive bit. Better to make one call and pass all the data as one argument. I'm not saying this is true, but see how I extracted something useful today from an experience that I had 15 years ago- without sounding old and without alienating my peer group.
Hope this helps.Comment
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostFFS do people actually talk like this. You sound like a right prick.Comment
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Originally posted by blackeye View PostOld guys just moaning that young people are better at software development then them.
Surprised there hasn't been any comments about the immigrant offshore teams taking all the jobs from hard working British people.
Originally posted by original PM View PostMy team has 5 developers
An Egyptian lady
A Romanian lady
2 in house English guys 1 is 55 and 1 is 25
An American guy
We also have
A German BA lady
An Indian ux designer
An Indian devopps guy
The tech stack we are using is completely new to the 2 in-house guys - the one who is doing best is the old guy not the young guy.
But as a team we have a huge delivery velocity.
So things go well really.
Certainly working in contracts in the major cities it'd be surprising if the team wasn't comprised of people from all over the world.Comment
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Originally posted by original PM View PostYeah we have 5 information radiators too.
(*I used to know someone who sold fridges; everyone in our street bought their fridge from him. He was the local fridge magnate.)Comment
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