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Skills you wish graduates had

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    #32
    Viper_JB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Viper_JB


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    I think he meant more graduate than intern.

    I think you're correct, from a graduate aspect though I guess I'd just expect OS knowledge and again a strong desire to learn the rest will come in time.


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    #33
    Sparks
    Registered Users Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    TrueDub wrote: »
    I don't think he means the first one at all. More that some tasks look mundane and possibly irrelevant, but still need to be done.
    Sadly, a lot (hell, damn near all) grads seem to think that things like "documentation" and "comments" are part of that set of mundane and irrelevant tasks.
    Hence the point about wanting them to just get on with it instead of complaining that documenting their code is a waste of time.

    (And honestly, I hear just one more person try to convince me that their code is clear enough that it's self-documenting, and I'm going to sit them down and force-feed them their own code from a year back...)


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    #34
    GavinFlud
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭GavinFlud


    Viper_JB wrote: »
    I mean interns are free...

    The good ones aren't. ;)


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    #35
    ChRoMe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭ChRoMe


    GavinFlud wrote: »
    The good ones aren't. ;)

    Good intern, isint that an oxymoron? :)

    *ducks*


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    #36
    lemon_remon
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭lemon_remon


    ChRoMe wrote: »
    Yes, yes you are.

    Yeah... it was a very optimistic 5.30 am post.


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    #37
    amen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭amen


    Not really a skill but a grad shouldn't assume he/she is the only one in the company with a degree and he/she especially shouldn't say it in canteen in a loud voice


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    #38
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    amen wrote: »
    Not really a skill but a grad shouldn't assume he/she is the only one in the company with a degree and he/she especially shouldn't say it in canteen in a loud voice

    Ah sure all interns/grads come out of college over confident in their skills.

    It takes patience to break their spirit and turn them into a cubicle zombie.


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    #39
    ChRoMe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭ChRoMe


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    Ah sure all interns/grads come out of college over confident in their skills.

    It takes patience to break their spirit and turn them into a cubicle zombie.

    Never a truer word spoken (typed?) :)


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    #40
    Sparks
    Registered Users Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Hey, you let the shouty nutters run the blogosphere/tweetosphere(?) with their buzzwords and hype and this is what you get... :D


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