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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 22 points 2 days ago

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 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 day 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 10 points 1 day ago

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

[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

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

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day 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.