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Singapore IT Students

Sigh... where has the quality gone too...

I'm not a good story teller, so pardon me...

Two weeks ago, someone joined the company who has experienced with configuring cisco router... My colleague was training him how to install sharepoint, sql and ad... Give him instructions to follow... one of them is supposed to navigate to "//myserver/path/"... That guy, really typed in "//myserver".. My colleague asked him, is your server really called myserver? he said yah... and you know the story...

Next... my colleague is teaching him that to find a webserver, everything has to be translated to IP address... He don't understand, and my colleague asked him to ping a url... He asked... "what is ping?" Man... my colleauge almosted wanted to say, "when you ping a server, the server will pong back to you" but didn't dare, in case he asked, "what is pong?" and to think that the guy can configure a cisco router...

Published Friday, December 23, 2005 12:39 AM by kitkai
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# re: Singapore IT Students@ Friday, December 23, 2005 12:52 AM

Gosh.....Tat is true shocking...When I was studying, some IT students just standby at the printer to 'steal' other fella's codes for assignment submission...So, I guess that practice holds today...

by microlau

# re: Singapore IT Students@ Friday, December 23, 2005 1:51 AM

Ya, we are warn against that 'trick' too. I guess there is still some 'hope'. Look at Darren, I think he surpass a lot of my peers regarding his knowledge on IT. Of course, on the overall, I think the standard is really gone.

by Shunjie

# re: Singapore IT Students@ Friday, December 23, 2005 8:48 AM

Do you know _where_ went wrong? Your company's interview procedure.

Does your company conduct drill and test interviewees for their technical competence? You'd be amazed by the number of filter who get filtered out this way.

by icelava

# re: Singapore IT Students@ Friday, December 23, 2005 9:15 AM

You are right... But it is also because if you are technical, he gives you a chance to learn. Hence he doesn't really test your technical skills...

by kitkai

# re: Singapore IT Students@ Friday, December 23, 2005 8:13 PM

What is important in a technical review is not exactly what s/he _knows_ off hand, but also how s/he perceives the situation and make out of it, and find information to deal with it.

We used to give interviewees a starting point to install MSDE for the .NET SDK - something any developer wanting to learn .NET is going to do. And I dunno if it's amusing or sad to see people clicking away aimlessly on the desktop in panic. Even when the instructions are right in front of them.

by icelava

# re: Singapore IT Students@ Friday, December 23, 2005 10:53 PM

Erm, i think we are heading for sensitive grounds, esp when i don't know who is reading this blog...
I posted this for your amusements and the sad reality of our IT students...

by kitkai

# re: Singapore IT Students@ Sunday, December 25, 2005 1:57 AM

And _why_ would it be considered sensitive?

Because employers _don't_ like to know that their means of management is not perfect.

http://icelava.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1153

It is way too easy to push the blame on the supposed incompetence of employees (that _you_ hired), to some extent which will be true, but very often one can identify ways from the management perspective to avoid such things.

by icelava