alt Hacker NewsIt is to me incredible, how many „developers“, even “10 years senior developers” have no idea how to use a dubugger and or profiler. I’ve even met some that asked “what is a profiler?” I hope I’m not insulting anybody, but to me is like going to an “experienced mechanic” and they don’t know what a screwdriver is.
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afpx • today at 4:45 PM
The last time I interviewed (around 10 years ago) I was surprised when 9 of the 10 senior developers didn't know how many bits were in basic elemetary types.
(Then, shortly afterward I also tried to find a new job, realized the entire industry had changed, and was fortunate enough to decide it wasn't worth the trouble.)
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I once interviewed at Microsoft. The hiring manager asked me how I would go about programming a break point if I were writing a debugger. I started to explain how I would have to swap out an instruction to put an INT 3 in the code and then replace it when the breakpoint would hit.
He stopped me an said he was just looking to see if I knew what an INT 3 was. He said few engineers he interviewed had any idea.