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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