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Maybe if companies didn't focus so much on stupid buzzwords and focused more on skills and viewing the programmer's portfolio, these things wouldn't happen. I don't even bother applying for jobs when the job description is loaded with buzzwords. Most of the time, I can't even tell what the day-by-day activities of the job would be after reading the job description. Employers lie through job postings and job candidates lie through their resumes. In the end, both parties are disappointed and so much for 'automating' those 'streamlined' 'solutions'.
The Non-Programming Programmer
I find it difficult to believe, but the reports keep pouring in via Twitter and email: many candidates who show up for programming job interviews can't program. At all. Consider this recent email from Mike Lin: The article Why Can't Programmers... Program? changed the way I did interviews. I ...
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