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- From: paterson@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca (Toby Paterson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: experienced NeXTSTEP programmer shortage
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 20:31:37 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
- Lines: 31
- Message-ID: <1go3n9INNrcb@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- References: <1992Dec15.195018.5227@afs.com>
- Reply-To: paterson@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca
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-
- In article <1992Dec15.195018.5227@afs.com> greg@afs.com (Gregory H.
- Anderson) writes:
- >
- > *soap box on*
- > Why won't anyone invest in training their employees anymore? Why must
- > everyone come pre-programmed for the specific job available? I'd rather
- > teach programming to smart liberal arts majors who know how to think,
- than
- > teach thinking to a bunch of computer linguists who only know how to
- code.
- > *soap box off*
- >
-
- * gross generalizations on *
- Many companies do. For example Anderson Consulting, a multi-national
- consulting firm, spends about six months training all its new employess.
- The computer industry, however, typically has a high turnover rate; many
- employees usually stay with a company for only a few years at a time
- before moving on to the next one (in many cases, the company's
- competitor). It's hard for a company with a high turn over rate to
- justify spending gobs of money training people who are going to leave
- shortly thereafter.
- * gross generalizations off *
-
- X
-
- --
- \\ / Who: Toby Paterson
- \\/ How: tpaterso@cs.ubc.ca, paterson@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca
- //\ What: Grunt and NeXT hacker; GDSS Fellowship
- // \ Where: University of British Columbia
-