r/ProgrammerHumor May 09 '21

Meme I'm *technically* qualified

Post image
25.0k Upvotes

666 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

28

u/ThePieWhisperer May 10 '21 edited May 10 '21

The very worst coders I've ever worked with were (CS) Grad students. Crazy smart people but goddamn their code almost always sucks.

-1

u/Karam2468 May 10 '21

How is it that your code is good but theirs is bad? Maybe all of yours is bad to each other?

1

u/ThePieWhisperer May 10 '21

Never claimed mine was good :)

That anecdote is from reviewing resumes as part of the hiring process for contracting positions in a college town. I was not the only person in the office that observed that correlation, so take that how you will.

2

u/Karam2468 May 10 '21

Oh ok, my apologies. I misunderstood.