D Programmer Jobs at Sociomantic Labs

Chris wendlec at tcd.ie
Tue Nov 5 06:37:41 PST 2013


On Tuesday, 5 November 2013 at 12:36:21 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
>> Someone would understand byte code manipulation but not 
>> inheritance? Seems very strange.
>
> Ah, you think it seems unbelievable? I thought so too the first
> time. OOP and OOD is not on the job ads any more as earlier. 
> They
> are now filled with things like JSP, JSF, EJBs, JNDI, JTA, JMS,
> SOAP, REST, ICEFaces, Spring, Ajax, OSGi, Spring, Axis, CXF,
> Oracle, Sybase, DB/2, Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL, Hibernate, Quartz,
> JMeter, XSD, XSLT, JavaScript, etc.
>
> So people after graduating are busy like hell learning some of
> those things to get a job. That leaves absolutely no time to
> learn OOP/OOD. So once they managed to get a job, they have to
> find ways to get the work done to keep it.
>
> Recruiters don't understand that OOP/OOD is a base technology 
> and
> many companies don't, either. A lot of Java work is getting some
> coding work done. If you got that web service implemented in 
> less
> than 5 hours, then you are good. Otherwise you are bad. Nobody
> will look at the code whether it reflects some design or
> something. Sad, but often true out there.

I'm not really surprised, given that employers (especially big 
companies) love buzz words. It's the same everywhere, not just in 
computing.


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