Archive: October 2018

• Private

  When would I hire a graduate

  Let's face it: there are not enough opportunities for people with little commercial experience when at the same time there is massive undersupply of experienced developers. There is no way around it. Companies need to hire graduates and juniors and keep them as long as possible. Only that can keep the situation healthy and fair. But at the same time business is not a charity and we need people to be productive. There are many boot camps that promise you to get a job. Some of them work. I can believe someone after intensive React course can be productive for example for agencies. But that doesn't work for everyone. In most of our projects (in current and previous companies) we needed more flexibility and ability to learn than just given set of tools. There is a massive difference between being able to build a countless number of nice and performing UI using a predefined set of good tools and being able to build scalable and complex software systems. That's why React is good to find the first job that pays, but NodeJS is a way to get a well-paid job in the long run (even despite crazy React rates). Below I list things (virtues and knowledge) that if I find in graduate I vote for taking person immediately:

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  #javascript#work#hire#wehire#graduate#junior#developer#work#job#recruitment#programming#development#react#nodejs

  2 min min read - October 1, 2018

• Software Development & Management

  setTimeout tells you much about a candidate

  For a very long time, I kept using the same set of questions while performing interviews. Even though I created it with Angular in mind, most of them have proven universal. Asking about Arrays became my favourite (as in opens way to discuss so many interesting patterns like Observables) or CORS, which allows discussing how network requests work. Anyhow, recently I started to value more and more one I kept asking about setTimeout and setInterval.

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  #javascript#programming#computer science#interview#hiring#recruitment#theory#settimeout#setinterval#evenloop

  1 min min read - October 1, 2018