On 27/07/17 13:24, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
On 07/27/2017 02:31 AM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
I'd like to add that what you should really be looking for is
not a Python programmer as such, but simply a good, competent
programmer.
Any decent programmer will be able to quickly pick up what
they need to know about Python on the job. If they can't,
then they're not good enough, and you shouldn't hire them.
I'll second that. I once had to build a team of Python developers for a
major project. The pool of actual Python programmers was small so we
just advertised for programmers. In the interviews we used a test that
used C to determine their problem solving skills. We also looked for
new grads so that they didn't have to un-learn a bunch of stuff. We
wound up with an amazing team that managed to build the project in
record time.
Lesson: Look for programmers, not Python (or Perl or C or C++ or Java
or...) programmers.
This isn't universally true, I'm afraid. A friend of mine who is a very
good C/assembler programmer simply cannot get his head around Python's
mindset. If you want bullet-proof Flash programming code, he's your
man. If you want Python-based unit tests for it, don't ask him.
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