Ok... gotta get this off my chest...

I was tasked to train a junior developer recently. Manager says he's (skill) is rusty, but has potential.

I thought to myself... "Rusty? I can deal with that... how bad can it be?"

He ran into some issues while going through the training material, and asked me for help. It was a simple task of printing something to the screen...

After glancing at his code, I said you have to make it (variable) a string. He LITERALLY types s-t-r-i-n-g...

Me: 😵💫

How can someone hire a guy like him?

Happened to me too once. I was against hiring him, management wanted him. Fully certified java dev. Ok give him a chance i though
(Although druring the interview he was proud that his google docs for was able to access his customer‘s SAP db directly instead of using interfaces 😳)

He didnt even know how the debugger works, i watched him once adding a println every second line wtf?

Additionally he couldnt take having a me as his superior (20years younger than him) ... umf

He claimed to be a buddhist, all spiritual (the american bullshit way ofcourse) though he was everything else but in his center 🙄

@scorpionk The power of bullshit is not to be trifled with

You have to take into account that a lot of good people behave like idiots when being watched.

@mojo2012 but I like printing every other line

And... let's just say I've recently left that company too...

More like "non-existent" than "rusty", I'd say.