>>14I'm not in the industry, but have you seen the Naughty Dog presentation linked on
>>8 ?
The first few pages talk about their hiring process.
There's no way they have shitty programmers there.
See Page 15.
Hiring Programmers
At Naughty Dog, programmer candidates are evaluated for:
✹
math and
problem-solving skills,
✹ knowledge of
low-level hardware and
optimization techniques,
✹ general computer science (data structures, algorithms, languages)
... in
that order!Also see Page 17.
✹ Don't be afraid to let a
bad apple go
I don't see a shitty programmer being hired.
In the rare case he ends up being hired, I don't see a chance of him staying long on the team.
Just because your company is big/well known it doesn't mean it's good.
Keep climbing the ladder. You'll eventually find a great company.