programming courses?

[Christopher Browne]

Ralph Doncaster wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> 
>> I think the best one I ever saw was a job posting expecting people
>> with 3 years of NeXTStep experience when NeXT had just released its
>> first products a few months prior.  (Yeah, that was a while ago :-).)
>>
>> Those looking for people with years and years of .NET experience also
>> seem similarly stupid...
> 
> I find it rather ironic when people complain about not getting an
> interview at a company due to stupid hiring practices.  If it's a dumb
> company, why would anyone intelligent want to work there?

Ah, but as soon as a company grows past, say, 1000 employees, it's
guaranteed that they need to implement a central HR function, and it's
the people that are "HR specialists" that are clueless in this fashion.

There may be perfectly competent techie folk around; it's just that you
can't get to them unless you can get through HR.
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