On 5/2/2011 4:11 PM, George Herbert wrote:
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Jeroen van Aart<jeroen@mompl.net> wrote:
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Mon, 02 May 2011 12:27:34 PDT, Jeroen van Aart said:
It surprised me because I, perhaps naively, assumed IT workers in general have a rather broad knowledge Sorry to break it to you. That's ok, the past tense in my story testifies to the fact I was already aware of it. But thanks. ;-)
There was a significant decline in knowledge as the .com era peaked in the 90s; less CS background required as an entry barrier, the employment pool grew fast enough that community knowledge organizations (Usenix, etc) didn't effectively diffuse into the new community, etc.
The number of people who "get" computer architecture, ops, clusters, networking, systems architecture and engineering, etc... Not good.
Sigh.
Unfortunately we see this when we interview candidates. Even those who have certifications generally only know how to do specific things within a narrow field. They don't have the base understanding of how things work, such as TCP/IP, so when they need to do something a little outside of the normal, they flounder. Jason