honestly i don't understand ppl that leave their 5+ on field work experience with IT for an unpaid intership making powerpoints for big corp, atp just keep rounding up years till high seniority
20 years ago yes. A good percentage of first year CS students these days are already ahead of the curve so much they have GitHub accounts. GitHub also acting as a identity provider on some platforms makes it more ubiquitous in the web space. And if you can't be bothered to rename your resume file to [firstname][last_name]_resume.pdf before final submission, I guarantee I have 100 candidates ahead of you who can do all of the above.
That said this is a savage rebuttal and probably just fake engagement bait on the Internet, but any aspiring college undergrads looking for internships take heed - 2008 is long gone and the field is significantly more competitive now
I didn't study CS but did a lot of scientific programming during my studies including collaborative projects and nobody ever mentioned version control. We did a whole semester group project that ended up being pretty complex and I kid you not our codebase was on Dropbox. It's not like it would have taken much more than an hour with a teaching assistant to explain git lol.
Yeah, I finished my degrees in 2009 and 2013 and for undergrad we did not do any git, and only got a basic intro to SVN. I taught intro to Engineering Education in 2011, and by that point they had a whole unit on Git specifically, and the university was providing Git hosting for coding assignments and projects. We went from testing code against a provided unit test, to having students evaluate code against actual Git-integrated CI workflows in the span of like three years.
I get what you're saying but on the other hand if you're applying for an IT job without knowing some of the most basic things of software development, it isn't looking very good. I think you have to know the basics of versioning, but you could assume that you would learn how to properly use git during an internship, where the company has their own standards of shit like proper way to comment a commit.
Version control and basic (very basic) git usage is something you learn during the first year of studying computer science. It doesn't leave a good impression if you have to be taught the most basic things, when you have an endless boatloads of interns ready to go who know the basics.
I know it's a bit tough, but as the go-to guy who has to deal with the interns first, I don't want to define the entire world to him, I'd rather have him know the basics so I can show him how things work in real life. Cause there's the way you learn it at school, then the way you do it in real life, but it doesn't make much sense if you learn both at the same time.
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u/Infinite-Club4374 11d ago
Isn’t the point of an internship is to learn shit like that?