> unfamiliar with my resume (nobody at Google knew what was on it > even though they had a copy at the interview). The whole idea of > such approaches shows (a) a lack of respect for the individual and > (b) an arrogant attitude of "you should feel LUCKY that we even > CONSIDERED talking to you"...Google even have me a t-shirt when they > rejected me :-). It smells like a hazing ritual for a frat club. > > Wow, I don't know anything about Google's hiring practices, but it sounds like they'd rather shape and mold the cheapest most gaga-eyed fresh-out-of-college youths instead of seeking out experienced people with relevant backgrounds in the projects they'd be working on. At least with the ITA challenges (I never interviewed there but I have seen these) it can be a way of demonstrating actual skills (albeit on a toy problem), more so than ridiculous on-the-spot puzzles at an interview, but it does seem insulting to require that of people who have more established credentials.
So I think that, on the whole, the universities have made a bad choice > not from a language perspective but from a "thinking" perspective. I > have taken the online SICP course from the authors and it had little to > do with Lisp and a lot to do with thinking. I don't know how to teach & > Some people really do think in Python and find Lisp hard. Language > wars are based on the misunderstanding that there is a right way to > think. Programming is thinking. Find your "native language". > I agree with the former, but I'm less of a relativist on the latter. I mean, some ways of thinking are just more elegant and less muddled than others. On one hand, it is true that having a diversity of different approaches is more likely to yield novel and unexpected solutions to problems. But when we can clearly see the same pathologically clumsy behavior repeated and replicated from generation to generation (the need for design pattens being a perfect example), the languages that foster clearer thinking should be favored. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
