The problem is that there are way too many of these “rants” from companies that DO fit the description of many of my negative comments. The problem is that your organization is a rare breed as are those of the persons at lostechies most likely.

I will even go out on the fence and say I would love to work for any of the companies of the individuals who are writing for lostechies. That’s most likely why i read your blogs, I value your opinions. However, companies like you describe make up about 1% of the companies that are hiring (obviously an exaggerated guess). And, the other 99% of the companies somehow feel validated by having the same opinion as you but arent nearly as progressive in their dev training and / or pay as you.

It makes me feel like you are doing more harm than good by validating their opinions. What I really would like to see is more smart people such as yourself talk about the other side of the equation, the employer, as opposed to bashing the developer side. Because, the fact is, most of those persons who come into your interview clueless, at some point worked for one of those other 99% of companies that I am speaking of negatively. Just as much as it is up to the employee to achieve his / her potential, the honus also needs to be placed on the employer to help devs live up to their potentials.

I’m lucky enough, to work for one of the 1% companies, and after working from the 99% group for so long, I feel that employers in this country feel like it’s ok for them to not hold up their end of the bargain – and then they feel like they have a right to rant about the employers. It’s insulting.

And, regarding your English, in reading your article, I would never have guessed you were a non-native English speaker. And, I am not one of the types that nit-picks persons for every little detail. I was simply thinking about you as “the employer” and I just wanted to make a point that there are two sides to every equation. To expect excellence you should be excellent. In that statement, I’m not talking about you the developer (whom I would most likely agree with on many issues and whom I look up to), i’m talking about you the employer.

I thank you for not overreacting, b/c i was highly frustrated and i said things in a very blount way. But I just wanted to show you that just as employers are frustrated by the poor interviewees you’ve experienced, many of us hard working devs are also frustrated at the employers we’ve worked for and interviewed with.

I guess, i just wish there were more companies out there like yours.

“Am I expecting too much? I don’t think so. Developers have I high responsibility. They produce software to automate business or mission critical processes. One should expect this software to be of high quality. To write high quality software we need good developers!”

-We also need people who can dispel the mysteries of the profession without making simple grammatical errors.

Am I expecting too much to expect to read articles with no spelling / grammatical errors of the most basic type? I would point out the error in the quote above, written by you, but then again you and your “high quality” skill-set probably already know or don’t care about such a menial task as spelling and grammar.

To this particular author, I doubt you are as arrogant as I portray. But, just as a person in Africa gets said when they see an American throw away horrible tasting food, when I see blog posts as this it makes me think that there are very few if any hiring managers left who value someone without White Collar type credentials. Like, if i haven’t already worked for Google, NASA, Facebook and I didn’t just graduate from an Ivy League school with a 4.0 that i can’t be a very motivated person and like I can’t still be great and thus I should only get paid 65k for a job that requires 8 years of hard earned experience. COME ON!