Comment by DidYaWipe
6 months ago
Just reading the first 1/5 of this made me bored. I started my career with C++, being heavy into it for 10 years. But I've been doing Swift for the last 10 at least. I had a job interview last week for a job that was heavy C++, with major reliance on templates and post-C++ 11... and it didn't go well. You know what? I don't give a shit.
It's crazy that with that amount of experience you wouldn't get the job, just because you lack some modern C++ info in your brain's memory. Stuff you could search for or ask an LLM in 5 seconds (or even look up in a freaking physical book). You'd probably be fully up to date within a few weeks.
Says a lot about the people hiring imo. Good luck to them finding someone who can recite C++ spec from memory.
If you last worked on Pre templates C++ and now need to work on a template heavy codebase you are effectively writing in a different language. I don't think it will be a few weeks of catching up.
Wow, that must be a very long time ago. Templates were around when I started (if I remember correctly), or soon after.
Which reminds me of something I hate more than header files: macros.
Ha, thanks, and obviously true. But I can understand companies wanting people who can just march into their codebase and "hit the ground running," I guess.
I don't need the stress anyway. The dough would've been nice, though...