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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] kane@femboys.biz 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Except they’re not, as you will know their tweet would be false after your first year of any technical (IT oriented) education.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

First year? That shit is like A+ cert level knowledge or below, and A+ is damn near worthless. They would know that in the first few hours of a study guide

[–] kane@femboys.biz 4 points 1 month ago

I was being generous when you consider the people in school who somehow pass, even when they don’t know a thing 🥲

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Technical enough to be hired, is all I meant. 🙄

[–] kane@femboys.biz 7 points 1 month ago

Apologies, if I came over as hostile. I did not get your meaning through text.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even then, no. These were all obviously nepotism hires who would not have otherwise qualified.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago

Meh, some of them won some hackathons and scholarships, it's pretty clear they're otherwise at least somewhat bright but they don't have any relevant domain knowledge.

In other words, the type of person most likely to be prone to hubris and catastrophic failures.