Showing posts with label smart programmer makes 10 times difference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smart programmer makes 10 times difference. Show all posts

Friday, November 4, 2016

Why Hire the Smartest Programmers - a small research

Nov. 4, 2016

Why Hire the Smartest Programmers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCg-2fOfTGI

Who they will work with? Work with smart people.

Case study:
Yale professor - assignment for each week,
student complained that it took 40 hours/ week to complete the assignment.

Students kept hours on the assignment.
4 hours vs 40 hours
Grade is objective, done by computer program, no human interaction.

No correlation between grades and hours spent on assignment.

Actionable Items:

Smart programmer makes 10 times difference. Look into this argument, different views.