Basic python understanding
D'Arcy Cain
darcy at VybeNetworks.com
Thu Jul 27 08:24:16 EDT 2017
On 07/27/2017 02:31 AM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> I'd like to add that what you should really be looking for is
> not a Python programmer as such, but simply a good, competent
> programmer.
>
> Any decent programmer will be able to quickly pick up what
> they need to know about Python on the job. If they can't,
> then they're not good enough, and you shouldn't hire them.
I'll second that. I once had to build a team of Python developers for a
major project. The pool of actual Python programmers was small so we
just advertised for programmers. In the interviews we used a test that
used C to determine their problem solving skills. We also looked for
new grads so that they didn't have to un-learn a bunch of stuff. We
wound up with an amazing team that managed to build the project in
record time.
Lesson: Look for programmers, not Python (or Perl or C or C++ or Java
or...) programmers.
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