Would you hire this Ruby on Rails developer
I had this interaction with somebody who applied for a job at Vinsol
What is disturbing here is the attitude of Indian developers towards contributing to open source projects, and belive me, this is fairly rampant. Contributing to open source projects matters more than your marks in school to us and to a lot of other companies around.
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on October 1st, 2008 at 1:28 am
K.. I’m confused, you’re Indian and you’re badmouthing your brethren?
Anyways… Not being Indian, I can tell you with absolute certainty that your brethren take too much pride in that 3.5-4.0 grading scale, so you’re correct. School grades have too many variables to be looked at as legit… why then do your brethren consider it so valiantly? One big variable - grades can be manipulated - plagiarized, whatever. Working on a project by yourself or in a team is proof positive that you actually earned your way through school without copying your classmate’s sourcecode.
To answer your question, I wouldn’t have wasted my time past his first response:
“I sent this mail for job application.”
You asked a question, which was responded with no answer - HUGE red flag indicating lack of communication skills and to throw this one away and move on. Actually, I think that’s kind of obvious….
on October 1st, 2008 at 2:26 am
The fact that he writes “u” instead of “you” is a major turn off for me.
on October 1st, 2008 at 6:16 am
Is this for real?
on October 1st, 2008 at 6:49 am
this is what is calld the Great Indian Attitude….
on December 1st, 2008 at 6:29 am
hah, oh man
on December 17th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Hi Manik,
This is a recurring problem, but I feel that it’s simply lack of exposure at the University level and then the wrong attitude of the company.As an entrepreneur I feel the responsibility to get this attitude right.
This needs to be instilled by people like you and me who know what is Open source, how the OS projects run and how to contribute to it. Most of the students need a push to do it.We need to provide that Initial push.
If you feel so bad about it, why not do something about it. I have gone and given demos of Ubuntu desktops, Ruby on Rails, to various meetups that had involved a lot of college students.There are dedicated people who do so. You can probably call bunch of college students and start with them, set a chain.I make sure that whoever joins my company has the right information regarding the open source projects and at least tries to contribute.
Why sit and crib,and give others a chance to bash the “Indian” developers.Instead get up yourself and improve it.
Thanks
on February 27th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Haha, this is funny.
Most Indian developers I have interviewed were shocked at the concept of contributing to open-source projects. They did not even realize that Rails is developed by volunteers for the love of programming.
Agree with Patrick too. I too would have thrown out this application at his “I sent this mail for job application.”
cheers
nilesh