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dissolvedgirl
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I've been given an intern to help me with my work (lol it's not helping) and she knows almost nothing of web dev, not even what Nodejs is, I had to explain it and guide her step by step on how to install it on her laptop. On her CV it says she has JavaScript experience, but she cannot even put together a basic HTML page, she asked me what a div is. As far as I know, HTML, CSS and JS are pieces of the same pie and you cannot really work with JS unless you also work with HTML and CSS. I think she lied on her CV and I need to tell my manager.

My question is, is it normal to know JavaScript and not know much about HTML and CSS?

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  • 3
    2y
    Ask her to write a loop in JS. See if she can even do a for loop.

    I use javascript all the time at work, but I use it in Qt QML/C++ framework. I have not done a lot of web work for a while.
  • 1
    2y
    @Demolishun Good idea. I have pair programming sessions with her, so next time I'll see what she knows of JS. Will be quite interesting...
  • 3
    2y
    @horus Or does she have Java experience, and was mistook for javascript?
  • 2
    2y
    I swear to God if I hear another story of someone getting a job in web development and they don't even know the most most most basic stuff and I read it without having a job already, I'm gonna fly to the moon, and jump at 500000000km/h with the most intense of hopes that I can fall, die and split / mess up Earth while I'm on it
  • 1
    2y
    The problem with HR people these days.. They kept hiring incompetent people and pushed them unto us.
  • 1
    2y
    @horus yeah you're right if the intern didn't learn JS with Web-Dev then the intern has to know node if not the intern needs to know web html
  • 2
    2y
    Wow today she tried to run the contents of the tailwind.config.js file inside her terminal. She doesn't understand the difference between a code editor/IDE and a terminal. I had a chat with my manager and apparently we need to train these under-educated people because social corporate responsibility stuff. Ugh. So now I have her doing FreeCodeCamp from scratch. I just can't, I have other work to do. Don't know why I wasn't told this before, would have saved me a f-ing week...
  • 0
    2y
    @green-portal Yep, getting paid a salary, but I don't know how much.
  • 1
    2y
    @dissolvedgirl girl if anything happens, I do know what a div is and how to do a loop in JavaScript. and react. and I'm willing to be an intern.
  • 1
    2y
    Well if we can do that I would like to apply too xD

    Just need a few weeks to finally finish my Bachelors Degree
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