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Article #618195Re: Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist.
From: hanc...
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 21:44
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 21:44
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On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 9:41:06 AM UTC-5, jmfbahciv wrote: > > Also, some managers would not consider anyone without similar > > industry experience. That is, an industrial plant would only > > consider people with industrial experience; someone from say > > an insurance company would not be considered (and vice versa.) > > I could sort of understand this to some extent, as there are > > certain industry-specific skills that developers should be > > aware of. But on the other hand, a software developer is not > > gonna be out running the blast furnace or rolling mill > > Are you kidding? They would have to know enough to talk to the > experts who do the work. Chemistry and physics in the real > world have rules, no matter how the software is written. > If the software messes up just a little bit w.r.t. the chemistry > of cement, the entire batch has to be dumped. A business applications programmer does not normally get into hard physics or chemistry to get out the payroll, accounts receivable, or inventory. A process-control programmer obviously would. But my impression was that those people usually began their careers as engineers or scientists, and then branched into programming. Or, the vendor of the controller provided the software. For instance http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/trw/rw-300/Texaco_Port_Arthur_Apr59.pdf
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