Are you really Sigourney Weaver?
Where did you find them?
Did you tell them to git gud?
the one true God is Doctor Doom and we should all be worshiping him.
What sort of developer job were they going for?
What kind of problems did you give them?
Quote from: Caped Baldy on June 23, 2016, 09:02:20 PMWhat sort of developer job were they going for?Web.Quote from: Yu on June 23, 2016, 09:03:33 PMWhat kind of problems did you give them?Simple stuff. It was a page pulling in user data from a database (name, email, phone, and a comma separated list of IDs that were matched with another table's values) and displaying it in panels.The "problem" was that I declared the database array OUTSIDE of a function and then referenced it INSIDE a function, which is bad. It should have been as simple as "oh, look at this error message that points to a line in the code, I must go to this line in the code and figure out what the problem is. Oh yes, I just add this "global" declaration to the variable and it's fixed."Literally had to just figure out I was referencing a variable out of scope and make it global.The second one was related to two script calls which were out of order. One was a framework called UIKit and it relies on this thing called jQuery, which I also called. The thing is, you HAVE to have the jQuery call before the things that depend on it, or else when the UIKit stuff looks for it, it's not there.Might sound like French to you normies. But it was back to fucking basics and it's honestly kind of hilarious and sad at the same time.Literally neither of them figured this out and they were supposed to be developers. One even had a portfolio of sites he had done.
Quote from: Caped Baldy on June 23, 2016, 09:02:20 PMWhat sort of developer job were they going for?Web.
Quote from: Cheat on June 23, 2016, 09:15:21 PMQuote from: Caped Baldy on June 23, 2016, 09:02:20 PMWhat sort of developer job were they going for?Web.If they had gotten the job, what would their typical tasks involve? General coding, or something more specific, or...?
Quote from: Cheat on June 23, 2016, 09:15:21 PMQuote from: Caped Baldy on June 23, 2016, 09:02:20 PMWhat sort of developer job were they going for?Web.Quote from: Yu on June 23, 2016, 09:03:33 PMWhat kind of problems did you give them?Simple stuff. It was a page pulling in user data from a database (name, email, phone, and a comma separated list of IDs that were matched with another table's values) and displaying it in panels.The "problem" was that I declared the database array OUTSIDE of a function and then referenced it INSIDE a function, which is bad. It should have been as simple as "oh, look at this error message that points to a line in the code, I must go to this line in the code and figure out what the problem is. Oh yes, I just add this "global" declaration to the variable and it's fixed."Literally had to just figure out I was referencing a variable out of scope and make it global.The second one was related to two script calls which were out of order. One was a framework called UIKit and it relies on this thing called jQuery, which I also called. The thing is, you HAVE to have the jQuery call before the things that depend on it, or else when the UIKit stuff looks for it, it's not there.Might sound like French to you normies. But it was back to fucking basics and it's honestly kind of hilarious and sad at the same time.Literally neither of them figured this out and they were supposed to be developers. One even had a portfolio of sites he had done....seriously?How long have these guys been doing stuff?
AMA Just gave a test to two applicants for a developer position and they both sucked, ama
