Interview

I had an interview today. It didn't go as well as I would have liked.
It didn't go badly but I wasn't familiar with everything my potential
employer did.

When did it become necessary for a developer to not only know the
language used inside out, but also the APIs used, the third party tools
used, and basically to have done the same job for the last five years.

I thought that the whole point of a good computer science education was
that you could apply what you learned to any language or API.

BTW, this was for a Java position with a focus on Swing. I'm an expert
Java developer and a damn good swing developer. There are just parts of
the API swing API that I have yet to have needed and those I'm unfamiliar
with (many having to do with look and feel).





--
Ken T.

We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we will all hang
separately.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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