The Trouble With Tech Industry Jobs

The Tech Industry has undergone a major shift in the way applicants are screened and hired. Back in the early days you wanted to know if they had some skills, but the most important were

• get the job done
• willing to adapt to your development style
• basically understand the concept of development

Now, most of the tech jobs are actually filling a space in a cubicle, cranking away at malformed, ugly code that's not even in the language you know because it's in a framework that uses a non-intuitive syntax, and it's cleaned up by testing apps and pre-processor apps so the coder wouldn't know if it worked or not, the way they wrote it.

Ironically though, when they interview you, they ask a slew of irrelevant questions, most of which actually don't have an answer, or perhaps have answers they don't even know.

Q: List all the ways to restart SAMBA from the command line
A: Depends on the distribution, probably at least 20 different, negating the "all the ways"

Q: A server has a CPU at 98% with only two running apps. What do you do?
A: Check the logs and turn off the apps.

And the worst setup is having you do a test exercise. There is almost no way to get this one right. Watch the video below to see what I mean...

Can you pass a pre-employment pop-quiz?
Posted by Summit Success on Friday, May 15, 2015