Was rudely awaken by a phone call just now. One of the clients cannot do daily closing on the system (daily closing is when you shut down your system, post all your transactions, print the reports and prepare the system to start in a new transaction date). Had to go online, login to the server and checked what's wrong with it. Hate to do this, but it's in the job description. Well I think if you are so dying to be a programmer, then you have to face the fact that your job requires you to be on standby 24/7.
I am a manager now, no doubt. But then until my company takes more people in, then I guess the managerial position is just on the name. Well, idiotically speaking, what's that to manage if there's no people? Maybe 2 staffs for a start, a junior programmer and a tech support. This should free myself a bit from the Hellish of getting phone calls at 3am or 4am in the morning. Good thing is my bosses don't really be fussy if I arrive late to work. Heck, I've even arrived at 10:30am and walked into the office like nothing happens. As long as I get the work done for the day, then there should be no problem I guess.
Then I received 2 internship applications, and I would like to share the story. Both are girls, studying in local public universities in Klang Valley. One girl is more towards multimedia part, where she is well-verse (she claims) in those Photoshop thingy. Doesn't really interest me then, as I'm more into programming part. But then still considering her because my company *might* need a graphic designer. Move on to the other girl. Based on the resume and list of subjects taken, she's more into coding part. Sounds good, she even made a bookstore inventory system using VB6.0 and MySQL. Just the type of person I'm interested with.
But then, yeah. I guess university life is when you'll do anything just to ensure you get what you want. I shouldn't have trusted the resume and CV at the first glance. The minute I asked her to send over sample code that she had done, her bluffs broke. The first time I asked her, she sent me the .exe file instead. Okay, maybe I did phrase my question wrongly. So I asked again, this time emphasizing the part that I wanted to see the source code. And she sent a non-working project, can you believe it? You're hoping to get internship placement, yet when asked to send sample project you sent a non-working one. Guess she got a 'distinction' in Human Logic & Reasoning course. So this time, a pissed-off me, asked her once again to send a working project with a stern warning that I won't consider her application at all if she fails to do so. Yerp, she managed to do what I want after the third time asking though.
But then, girls will just be girls. To tell the truth, I rarely see a girl that is damn good at programming with exception for a few. My buddy, Nita, is one of them. Bastard damn good in programming to the point I feel inferior to her. But then, this girl, heh. I guess the only experience she has in VB6.0 database programming is using a data control to display resultset. Can you believe it, there's still people who use the bug-ridden fucking data control?? I saw in the project, the only database-linked code was Adodc1.Resultset.Next. Bastard was even damn lazy to rename the control, using a buggy data control with minimal coding involved and you dare to put in your resume you experience in MySQL is at intermediate level. Couldn't imagine if I were to ask her to write a SQL statement without referencing to any website or book. She could have pissed in her panties LOL. Gets a big NO from me then.
But then, I don't know. Maybe I should just give her a chance and train her to do real coding. But then I'm notoriously known as a bad teacher. If she asks for something, I would either tell her to 'Just fucking Google it' or I'll throw sarcastic remarks while pointing her to the correct direction. I'm a bad person, yes. Can she handle me as supervisor? Programmers are well-known to be damn arrogant tough cookie. Scared she'll cry everytime she walks home from work LOL.
Just a reminder to you guys out there. If you're applying for internship and the person asks for your sample code, just give the damn code okay. He/She is not asking the code so that he/she can copy it. I bet your pile of shit coding doesn't even goes to the standard of programmers, so don't be shy to send your most achievable result. Oh, before you go ballistic saying your code is just as good as mine, just have this in your mind: I do error-trapping in every subs and functions of my system so that you can supply shitty input and still it'll produce standard, comprehensible output. Can you do the same?
I am a manager now, no doubt. But then until my company takes more people in, then I guess the managerial position is just on the name. Well, idiotically speaking, what's that to manage if there's no people? Maybe 2 staffs for a start, a junior programmer and a tech support. This should free myself a bit from the Hellish of getting phone calls at 3am or 4am in the morning. Good thing is my bosses don't really be fussy if I arrive late to work. Heck, I've even arrived at 10:30am and walked into the office like nothing happens. As long as I get the work done for the day, then there should be no problem I guess.
Then I received 2 internship applications, and I would like to share the story. Both are girls, studying in local public universities in Klang Valley. One girl is more towards multimedia part, where she is well-verse (she claims) in those Photoshop thingy. Doesn't really interest me then, as I'm more into programming part. But then still considering her because my company *might* need a graphic designer. Move on to the other girl. Based on the resume and list of subjects taken, she's more into coding part. Sounds good, she even made a bookstore inventory system using VB6.0 and MySQL. Just the type of person I'm interested with.
But then, yeah. I guess university life is when you'll do anything just to ensure you get what you want. I shouldn't have trusted the resume and CV at the first glance. The minute I asked her to send over sample code that she had done, her bluffs broke. The first time I asked her, she sent me the .exe file instead. Okay, maybe I did phrase my question wrongly. So I asked again, this time emphasizing the part that I wanted to see the source code. And she sent a non-working project, can you believe it? You're hoping to get internship placement, yet when asked to send sample project you sent a non-working one. Guess she got a 'distinction' in Human Logic & Reasoning course. So this time, a pissed-off me, asked her once again to send a working project with a stern warning that I won't consider her application at all if she fails to do so. Yerp, she managed to do what I want after the third time asking though.
But then, girls will just be girls. To tell the truth, I rarely see a girl that is damn good at programming with exception for a few. My buddy, Nita, is one of them. Bastard damn good in programming to the point I feel inferior to her. But then, this girl, heh. I guess the only experience she has in VB6.0 database programming is using a data control to display resultset. Can you believe it, there's still people who use the bug-ridden fucking data control?? I saw in the project, the only database-linked code was Adodc1.Resultset.Next. Bastard was even damn lazy to rename the control, using a buggy data control with minimal coding involved and you dare to put in your resume you experience in MySQL is at intermediate level. Couldn't imagine if I were to ask her to write a SQL statement without referencing to any website or book. She could have pissed in her panties LOL. Gets a big NO from me then.
But then, I don't know. Maybe I should just give her a chance and train her to do real coding. But then I'm notoriously known as a bad teacher. If she asks for something, I would either tell her to 'Just fucking Google it' or I'll throw sarcastic remarks while pointing her to the correct direction. I'm a bad person, yes. Can she handle me as supervisor? Programmers are well-known to be damn arrogant tough cookie. Scared she'll cry everytime she walks home from work LOL.
Just a reminder to you guys out there. If you're applying for internship and the person asks for your sample code, just give the damn code okay. He/She is not asking the code so that he/she can copy it. I bet your pile of shit coding doesn't even goes to the standard of programmers, so don't be shy to send your most achievable result. Oh, before you go ballistic saying your code is just as good as mine, just have this in your mind: I do error-trapping in every subs and functions of my system so that you can supply shitty input and still it'll produce standard, comprehensible output. Can you do the same?
4 comments:
parid pon dah naik pangkat jadi manager gak. cuba tanye parid :P
tanya apa?
btul, 2 thn junior exec dh lompat jadi manager, saje je tanak announce kat blog dia
dpt jd manager, pastu dpt gi red carpet dinner, host JJ & Rudy Hitz.fm, penyanyi Adibah Noor. Pergh, baru sebulan jd manager aku dah disogok dgn sogokan yg sebegitu rupa....huhu...tp aku tetap takleh ckp aku jd manager ape...
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