Maybe they want to avoid java coding patterns. FactoryFactoryGenerator kind of stuff. Maybe they want to teach their own java coding patterns and want someone coming in with a blank slate so they don't have to unlearn habits. Maybe they're tired of diploma mill programmers applying and are using this as a resume filter tripwire.

[–] pennomi 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Definitely. Horror story time.

We had an outside contractor bring us some code once that was thousands of lines of Python to do a very simple job. I was perplexed. I dove in to figure out what the problem was, and somehow I was looking at the most Java-esque Python code I could imagine. What’s worse is that he implemented his own “Java style” property getters and setters for all the Python classes, which obviously aren’t needed because you can simply access properties directly. In the end I took an 80 line snippet of his code (which actually did the work we needed), swapped out all the getters and setters, and deleted all the rest.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can always tell when someone's been a career contractor because they never adhere to any of the established patterns/styles in the codebase.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I disagree. Good career contractors should learn to write in the code style of the project. And the real pros do.

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