I know it's a bit provocative title, but still. I find my company hire a lot of people from Cisco, who, allegedly, know something about networking. But they cannot code, and often don't have CS basics! I found bad professionals hoard their domain knowledge, while just being ... well, very poor SWEs. Is there really anything that important / difficult in networking, that we have to hire all these bad engineers, just because of their perceived "domain knowledge"?
I think for a startup it can make a huge difference as domain expertise can help make right design decisions at every layer of the product and help It scale and succeed in the target market. In a large company , domain expertise can certainly be valuable too , but there are several support functions that can be relied upon to help with the domain expertise. In any case , domain expertise can only be a positive but not if the core job skills are lacking. I believe many companies lack a robust interviewing process where personal biases about people’s strengths/value creep in based on their backgrounds or resume keywords ; and candidates are not appropriately vetted for their key job skills.
Depends on the role and the product. In some cases it can definitely help if you understand the domain when it comes to building ops-focused apps or data stores.
yes
Domain knowelledge is always important. The example you gave seems to be the extreme and I would not hire them, but I wouldn't hire a developer with zero knowelledge of the domain either.
Yes. Networking, storage and other such industries need domain expertise. In the past, such folks were hired just for this expertise and coding wasn’t as much of a requirement as it is these days. That’s why you see a lot of them who might not code but are very good in their domain area of expertise.
Anyone can code nowadays but not everyone can think and solve problems using their knowledge.
If you have a plumbing problem you hire a plumber. Why would you hire a SWE? This is a naive post to think a SWE can do advanced networking. This is the problem with devs. You learn one domain field and some how believe that others are not as educated. Pfft.
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They are hired by their fellow countrymen. Not because they are expert at anything.
Wow general..you spew the same shit everywhere
GenPatton, please do the needful and gtfo. This post has nothing to do with Indians.