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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 days ago by SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even then, no. These were all obviously nepotism hires who would not have otherwise qualified.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 days ago

Meh, some of them won some hackathons and scholarships, it's pretty clear they're otherwise at least somewhat bright but they don't have any relevant domain knowledge.

In other words, the type of person most likely to be prone to hubris and catastrophic failures.