Re: not enough real programmers?

[prs@gol.com (Peter Stephenson)]

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:52:57 GMT, drifkind@acm.deleteme.org (David
Rifkind) wrote:

>On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:10:24 GMT, prs@gol.com (Peter Stephenson) wrote:
>>The question remains: how do you tell if they are decent programmers?
>
>Hire them, give them projects, and wait to see how they come out.  If
>they're not competent then kill them, bury the bodies, and forge records
>to prove that they never worked for you.

Aha - so that's the 'some kind of novitiate' mentioned earlier in the
thread, then.

Of course you could just hire contractors.  

[Ramble]

The project I work on has just cleared out every single contractor.
They seem to be replacing them with ambitious grads (although I find
most people look like grads these days).  By some bizarre stroke of
fortune I was switched to 'special employee' a few months ago. 

 Ho hum.

[/Ramble]