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It's almost like a rant is written in a biased way, and hubris is one of the three virtues of a developer ;)
Part of it is, well, a lot of complicated family stuff. Long, long story. The result of it being, I would actually enjoy getting an opportunity to assess his skills. Thanks to geography, we only see each other at holidays, and thanks to my sister's limited vacation time, we don't see each other much.
I was also excited to be able to potentially help him! And now I can't. Alas. Though I suppose the making-a-connection is help, so I can content myself with that :) -
@skprog It's tough to know! I won't bore you with my credentials, but I feel pretty confident us having a conversation would be valuable.
If you want to know about the experience my brother-in-law has gotten, this perhaps tells you a lot: https://devrant.com/rants/1131358/...
But even if I knew less, giving him a chance to practice working through questions with someone technical would be valuable. -
@skprog Being older means you're more experienced. Not that you're better technical skills but you have more life and work related experience... Youth is one big reason to be arrogant.
@Christine as long as you know it's your hubris talking...
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A connection was looking for a developer in the city my brother-in-law recently moved to (for my sister's career), so I connected them. They exchanged a couple of emails, and he has an on-site interview tomorrow!
He and I are both .Net developers, and I'm older/more experienced, so I offered to rearrange my schedule to help him with some interview prep tonight.
He said no, that he's pretty confident about things, that he'll do some studying and research on his own.
Good for him and his confidence, but I'm kinda salty that he didn't take me up on my offer. I'm pretty damn clever. How dare someone reject my offer for assistance?? I hope the interview goes well of course but if it doesn't I'm very much going to feel some silent "I told you so!"
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