Saturday, June 7, 2008

Lead Software Engineer

Our friend Mikhail over in Danville is a "Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Technology." This alone should scare you off.

Don't worry, however, as Mikhail has some practical skills, too. For starters, he knows HTML. With twelve years of experience under his belt, it's no wonder he's familiar with cutting-edge technologies like the Netscape Enterprise Server, DHTML and Windows 2000.

The candidate is familiar with many "developing environments" like Ant (which is really a build system) and MFC (an API) and CVS (a version control system). To us, a "developing environment" might be found in a darkroom (not in a dark room), if those even exist anymore.

We're hoping someone can explain to us what exactly an "Internet environment" is. Trying to deduce that from the examples given just made our brains hurt.

With sentences like "metadata-driven configurable(XML) component that unified GUI presentation functionality," perhaps he is considering moving into management.

During his meteoric rise to the top, he "architectured" some truly impressive projects, like converting the entire contents of a database into 600,000 — count ’em — static HTML files. (Note that he received an award for “exceptional performance” on this project.) We wonder if he got paid by the page. Wikipedia sure could use a few geniuses like this one.

Your eager reviewers note that it appears as if the candidate received points for each technology employed in the deployment of a particular project. We regret to inform him this is not the case.

We do credit Mr. P with being able to build suspense. In regards to his 2002–04 stint at MDL, he wrote that "The product intends to be a facade infrastructure of about 50 server-side bioinformatic and drug discovery products." Will it ever become such an infrastructure? Perhaps he will tell you during the interview. Might we humbly suggest that he has missed he true calling as a writer of cheap thrillers.

We did notice a single glaring omission in this otherwise stellar document: where, pray tell, is the B2B?

Buzzword quotient: 6
Spelling and grammar errors found: we stopped counting after 56
Bad graphics: 7
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