Comment by pryelluw
21 hours ago
This was my experience prior to any of the llm tools. It’s hard to find people with all around knowledge. Plus someone good in one context is awful in another. Your hiring process should find people who are a good fit and not look for people with just certain technical skills. The basics of SQL can be learned quickly. Fit cannot be learned.
Well said. Some of the best engineers I know looked up syntax whenever they needed it because there’s not much point in wrote learning everything. As long as they understand what they’re doing, that’s the main point.
I’m honestly so sick of interviews filled with gotcha questions that if you’d happened to study the right thing you could outperform a great experienced engineer who hadn’t brushed up on a couple of specific googlable things before the interview. It’s such a bad practice.