Years ago (early '90s), "years of experience" was an extremely important metric when applying for jobs and academic credentials had little relevance. Today, I think that has reversed. There is disdain for "years of experience" and more people view university credentials as a caste system (as that one candidate you quoted suggested). The corollary to this is that people following a classical full time programmer career path is much rarer.
There are plenty of experienced developers out there that I believe fit what you are looking for, they are just harder to find. The traditional resume and job board route often yields very disappointing results for both parties. On Aug 25, 10:42 am, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > 4-5 years is about long enough to get truly frustrated with Java/Struts/Spring/Hibernate/etc Struts/Spring/Hibernate have all gone well past their peaks. Struts has been a 100% legacy tool since 2005. Lumping Java in there isn't fair. Java is completely fine as a general purpose language. I do appreciate the cleaner syntax, functional support, and standard library of Scala over Java, but Java is more than adequate for most purposes. The JVM has better open source build/dependency/testing infrastructure that the non-JVM alternatives I've used. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
