Please elaborate. How exactly am I being thwarted? How do you think this cultural barrier conspiracy works?
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Replying to @GolerGkA
Why do you think you're overworked? Why do you think it is extremely difficult to hire cost-effective devs?
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Replying to @webdevMason
When I ask some theory question, most answer with something their memorized, but when I ask follow-up questions it's often evident they did not understand it.
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Replying to @GolerGkA
Devs like this can sometimes manage to glide by because the people interviewing them (for low-range salaries/hourly work, anyway) aren't themselves technically competent & are easy to impress via jargon and conceptual sleight-of-hand (basically, a Nerd Savvy performance)
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Replying to @webdevMason
Yes, I agree. But I thought we were arguing and you were trying to prove that it's just a cultural barrier? Aren't you kind of disproving your own point now?
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Replying to @GolerGkA
It's not the case that *anyone* can be a strong dev... but for a long time, you were expected to play the Nerd Savvy game for access to the market — e.g. have strong opinions on vim/emacs, be able to whiteboard runnable code, etc. Wrt creative problem-solving, it's a distraction.
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Replying to @webdevMason
OK, a lot of different things here. First, having opinions about vim/emacs is correlated with being a good dev, so yes, it can be a good predictor, but hardly a requirement. 2, I hear a lot of complaints about white boarding, but I don't get it. I don't use it in my interview 1/
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Replying to @GolerGkA @webdevMason
process, but I don't understand why a capable developer wouldn't be able to write code on a whiteboard, apart from obvious mistype-level errors
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Replying to @GolerGkA
It's possible for a bright, creative problem-solver to learn to code in a matter of months and be perfectly competent at pseudo-coding a brilliant solution to a much tougher (and more work-relevant) problem that they could write relatively quickly after a few Google searches
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Replying to @webdevMason
Yes, I agree. But this doesn't disprove my point about white boarding in any way
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