Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:21:56 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > And if a manager goes hiring programmers when time's already tight, then > the manager is an idiot because getting the new people up-to-speed is > only going to cause more delay even if the language is the same (and > again, the time to pick up the language is small compared to the other > stuff). That's been shown time and time again.
It's a bit different where I've worked. Most contracts were really short. You participate in about 3 to 12 smaller web service projects during the year. We rarely hired any juniors, you had to have 5+ years of real life commercial experience with typical frameworks (Stripes, Spring, Hibernate, Memcached, ASP.Net, Rails, Django, Symfony, jQuery, Maven, Apache configuration, SVN, Git, GCC, etc.). Sometimes a single project took only couple of months - a prototype milestone had a really tight schedule.