So this other company called thoughtworks is interviewing me. Apparently if you don't have more than 2 years of "real work experience" in a large commercial environment, you get placed in their graduate program and spend 6 weeks in India on their training program. They also say that they hire the smartest and brightest, however this blog post indicates otherwise.
http://www.pyrasun.com/mike/mt/archives/2005/04/23/18.29.03/index.html
Not sure if I want to work for them now, and there's no way that I'm working for a starting grad salary, no way. I like it where one person said "They helped develop me, a 22 year-old kid fresh out of college with little more than two semesters of programming under his belt." Surrounded by idiots or newbs is the last thing I want to be doing.
1 comment:
The fact that they claim to hire 'the smartest and brightest' is something that sounds great on face value.
But certainly experience, whether in or out of an office-type enviroment has to count for something just as much? The problem with that is that it's much easier to check and guage exp from a reference or previous employer - no matter how bs it might seem.
I wonder just how good this kid with almost no experience was that they took on.
Granted that I'm no expert on the matter, but no matter how bright you are, wouldn't it take a pile of time, resources and letting them learn for themselves (aka making big ol' mistakes) before you were prepared to let them at a serious project?
Is two semesters enough to prepare them for that? Then again, it is entry level.
xoxo L
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