On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Sidu Ponnappa <lorddae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When reviewing a resume, we simply ignore the years of experience. It > matters little, since what we care about is capability, and there are > other indicators of that (like an active github account to name one). > Our interview process involves writing code; perhaps not as much as > we'd like, but enough to get a fair idea of where someone's stands. > > For that matter even our salaries aren't linked to years of > experience, so I'm sure you can tell I'm not much of a fan of the idea > when applied to programming jobs. > I agree , an active commit history is a much better indication (and substantiation) of one's competence as a programmer. > > > ( in django , etc ) does it mean that free and open source developers who > > use these technologies > > in their free time (and not in their day jobs) are NOT experienced ? > We actually prize this kind of experience far more because it tells us > that that person enjoys writing code enough to contribute to open > source, and can code well enough to have patches accepted by a > project. Furthermore, we get to actually see some real, live code > that's running in the wild written by the candidate. > > -- regards, Kunal Ghosh _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
