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ZipRecruiter Duth Sucketh

seasoned_geek by seasoned_geek
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I reported this to ZipRecruiter months ago. When you use Agile, off-shore and “priced right” labor, one cannot expect valid software or anything that was even partially tested. Agile is just hacking on the fly after all.

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To start with, C++ is one of the most popular embedded systems programming languages ever. It’s predecessor, C, is the “portable assembly language” used to write numerous operating systems, including Linux. Anyone who went to college for an actual degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering knows this and knows at least one of these programming languages. Obviously not what is working in software development at ZipRecruiter.

Try this yourself

Not one of those openings have anything to do with C++ or programming.

Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.

A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.

Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars

When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.