| > This might be excluding anybody that cannot work after hours, for a reason or another. Maybe I'm reading into this but I see this type of response a lot on HN. > A: You need experience. Get some after hours > B: I don't have any time after hours. It's not fair Like gees! What do you expect? B: I wanna be guitar player in a rock band A: Well, if you don't play guitar, take lessons after hours B: I don't have any time after hours A: So what do you expect me to do about it? I'm not about to add someone who's never played guitar and can't demonstrate the skills as a guitarist in my band. It's not my problem that you can't play, don't have the time to learn, and yet want to be in my band. --- Same for any company: So what do you expect me to do about it? I'm not about to add someone who's never programmed games and can't demonstrate the skills as a game programmer in my team. It's not my problem that you can't code games, don't have the time to learn, and yet want to be in my gamedev company. |
I work in quantitative trading and the number of people that think they can just throw a script together and make money is... well, if I had a dollar for each...