How to choose ITshnika in Russia: myth number 2, number 3
Continue to disassemble the myths.
Myth 2: “Russian programmers are the best!”
Again - a myth. Let's dive into the history of IT and recall significant figures, equal at least to Dijkstra, Richie or Virtue. It comes to mind only Turchin and the one, rather theorist respected in narrow circles. I do not plead the merits of the REFAL language or supercompilations, but we confess honestly - the minds that entered the development (Kay, Carmack, Torvalds, Straustrub, Tonenbaum, Mac Kartney) belong to Russia! And now we will look at the technology stack that is taught in our universities - 10 years ago, Delphi and PASKLE were taught to our programmers, and C ++ as a crown of human thought. The average graduate of a Russian university has not heard of industrial tools like Erlang, Eiffiel, Smalltalk, Scheme and he doesn’t know how to work correctly with NoSQL or Big Data. Percent 50% of diplomas are written on topics that are without applied value, and people without education (in work practice) show a 2-3 times higher performance. As proof of this thesis - look, at least, at computer security specialist Chris Kaspersky, who never received a diploma of higher education. What is the reason? Russian universities teach what is no longer used in the mainstream, as teachers do not combine scientific activity with practice.
Myth 3: “It’s better to hire 5 juniors than an experienced one is more effective."
Like a delusion that if you give a typewriter to thousands of monkeys and they write “War and Peace” - this delusion still lives. A hungry student has no work experience, he has no practical knowledge. The most trivial task translates into lengthy reading manuals and stuffing cones. An experienced specialist will solve it in a couple of hours. With complex tasks, everything is even worse - juniors will simply not be able to efficiently implement it in a short time. Therefore, it is better to pay one person a normal salary than to inflate the state.
Myth 2: “Russian programmers are the best!”
Again - a myth. Let's dive into the history of IT and recall significant figures, equal at least to Dijkstra, Richie or Virtue. It comes to mind only Turchin and the one, rather theorist respected in narrow circles. I do not plead the merits of the REFAL language or supercompilations, but we confess honestly - the minds that entered the development (Kay, Carmack, Torvalds, Straustrub, Tonenbaum, Mac Kartney) belong to Russia! And now we will look at the technology stack that is taught in our universities - 10 years ago, Delphi and PASKLE were taught to our programmers, and C ++ as a crown of human thought. The average graduate of a Russian university has not heard of industrial tools like Erlang, Eiffiel, Smalltalk, Scheme and he doesn’t know how to work correctly with NoSQL or Big Data. Percent 50% of diplomas are written on topics that are without applied value, and people without education (in work practice) show a 2-3 times higher performance. As proof of this thesis - look, at least, at computer security specialist Chris Kaspersky, who never received a diploma of higher education. What is the reason? Russian universities teach what is no longer used in the mainstream, as teachers do not combine scientific activity with practice.
Myth 3: “It’s better to hire 5 juniors than an experienced one is more effective."
Like a delusion that if you give a typewriter to thousands of monkeys and they write “War and Peace” - this delusion still lives. A hungry student has no work experience, he has no practical knowledge. The most trivial task translates into lengthy reading manuals and stuffing cones. An experienced specialist will solve it in a couple of hours. With complex tasks, everything is even worse - juniors will simply not be able to efficiently implement it in a short time. Therefore, it is better to pay one person a normal salary than to inflate the state.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/301814/
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