NYCPHP Meetup

[David Sklar]

> From: Hans Cathcart [mailto:hans at cathcart.org]
>
> People with deep technical skills in
> Databases and Application development will make a come back.
> Good designers will be OK.  But, people who just know how to
> code HTML and use Dreamweaver are a dime a dozen now.

I think this is the crucial point. The explosion in need for "web
programmers" caused a lot of people to go into the field without a lot of
the industrial base of skills that are useful (necessary?) when jobs aren't
so plentiful, like now.

The worst I saw this was at my old company in Boston, after an interview
with a potential programmer. He did the standard 1 or 2 programming
questions we asked and we talked about various things. At the end, he asked
me if we always ask programming questions in interviews. (Yes). He said he
thought that was very tough of us, since this was the first programming
interview he'd been to where he'd actually been asked to write code!

-dave