{"id":70,"date":"2006-08-02T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/?p=70"},"modified":"2006-08-02T15:02:25","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T14:02:25","slug":"podcast-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Podcast comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was listening to my cup of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.javaposse.com\">javaposse<\/a>. They started a discussion about the difference between good and bad codemonkeys. The said that a good monkey would be 300% more productive than a bad one, but what&#8217;s more strange is that they would probably still be paid the same.<\/p>\n<p>As I know what a lot of my collegeaus earn, I really have to agree with this. There are guys out there who really get paid way to little for what they know and do, and others who actually don&#8217;t do much get paid even more. This is really frustrating, I know that if I&#8217;m in charge of the money I&#8217;ll be giving my best programmers more than those who do little and know little.<\/p>\n<p>In my former job, I now and then had to interview some sollicitants. I always asked the very simple question, tell me the difference between an abstract class and an interface. If they didn&#8217;t knew, well sorry your not a programmer in my eyes. It&#8217;s one of the basics of OO programming, what&#8217;s almost a defacto standard.<\/p>\n<p>My current employer works with consultants (as I am one of them), I told him as tip. If you get a consultant, just type his name in google. If you don&#8217;t get any results, I for one wouldn&#8217;t hire them (unless he can explain). Why you might ask, well actually very simple. If you can&#8217;t find something, where do you look. Google,Support,&#8230; in most cases if you log a question or something you have to provider your credentials, so you leave your credentials behind. These things get picked up by search engines. It&#8217;s not always true off course, but in many cases it will give you an indication of the person who is sitting before you.<\/p>\n<p>Now I was wondering if you could take it one step further. Afaik if you are programming you are using your keyboard, hence a person who knows who to type without looking at his keyboard should be faster than someone who needs to look at his keys. So should you say, if you can&#8217;t type, you won&#8217;t get the job, or is this taking it one step to far?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was listening to my cup of javaposse. They started a discussion about the difference between good and bad codemonkeys. The said that a good monkey would be 300% more productive than a bad one, but what&#8217;s more strange is that they would probably still be paid the same. As I know what &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/?p=70\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast comment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informatics","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3U9nk-18","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.pczone.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}