I got a job doing Java web services without any Java or web services experience. My prior experience was embedded c and tcl/tk.
Hire people, not rails programmers. People can become rails programmers. If you require a candidate to have too specific experience or education you are limiting your pool of good candidates. On Feb 28, 2016 10:53 AM, "Martin Bähr" <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from sheila miguez's message of 2016-02-28 16:47:46 +0100: > > You may not have realized it, but your framing makes it seem more > daunting > > than it is for people who haven't had a chance to work on open source > > projects. > > well the question was about people who did not study programming, but want > to > change their career. but even for computer science students, i keep seeing > people who manage to get a degree without doing any programming. > > so for hiring people into their first software development job, they have > to > demonstrate somehow that they already learned programming. > > for a computer science student, a programming test as part of the interview > will do, but for anyone else they have to do more than that to convince me > that > they have what it takes to work in software development. and that's where > contributions to Free Software projects help. > > and as for working two jobs, if you want to change your career you have to > invest the time to prepare for that. if you don't have that time, i don't > see > how you want to achieve any kind of career change. > > heck, even if you are in the IT industry already, if you want to switch > from > being a java developer to work with ruby on rails, you better have worked > on > some rails side projects if you want to raise your chances, or if not > rails, at > least work with some other languages and frameworks besides java to show > that > you are not just a one-trick pony. > > if your job does not give you the opportunity to expand your skills, then > you > have to do it on your own. > > Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) in his book The Clean Coder, expects > professional > programmers to spend 20 hours a week on top of their 40 hour work week to > be > reading, practicing, learning and otherwise enhancing their career. > > that said, if i have the choice to hire a computer science student who did > not > do development work besides his or her assigned classes, and a biology > student > who spent any time that he or she could on software projects, then that > biology > student has a realistic chance of getting picked. > > greetings, martin. > (oh, btw i am hiring :-) > > -- > eKita - the online platform for your entire academic > life > -- > chief engineer > eKita.co > pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net > societyserver.org > secretary > beijinglug.org > mentor > fossasia.org > foresight developer foresightlinux.org > realss.com > unix sysadmin > Martin Bähr working in china > http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/ >
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