I don't keep a blog to impress you. Nor to "try to teach other people"; if anything I use it to teach myself (ie to organize my own thoughts and to document my learning).
Blogs are simple media to share one's thoughts, because one likes to write and... to share---that is it. If you don't care for my writing and my sharing then you're free to move on.
The beautiful thing about knowledge is that it's free and open to anyone, implying that junior engineers shouldn't have blogs is next level elitism and conceit. That is what I find worrying.
I feel sorry for the people having to interview with you or working under you, that need to code themselves "out of a paper bag" to impress you.
You know what is not fine? Telling people they need blogs or open source projects to get better chance at getting work.
Because then I get candidates that spent a lot of their time and effort doing something they did not really want to do rather than getting better at what they want to.
> I feel sorry for the people having to interview with you or working under you, that need to code themselves "out of a paper bag" to impress you.
I feel sorry for the people that have to work with you if you feel ability to demonstrate you can program is not a prerequisite for working in a development team.
Blogs are simple media to share one's thoughts, because one likes to write and... to share---that is it. If you don't care for my writing and my sharing then you're free to move on.
The beautiful thing about knowledge is that it's free and open to anyone, implying that junior engineers shouldn't have blogs is next level elitism and conceit. That is what I find worrying.
I feel sorry for the people having to interview with you or working under you, that need to code themselves "out of a paper bag" to impress you.