Off topic: Article : What if companies interviewed translators the way they interview coders?
Thread poster: Alexandre Chetrite
Alexandre Chetrite
Alexandre Chetrite
France
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English to French
Jun 27, 2017

Hello,

Nice article:

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/welcome-to-the-software-interview-ee673bc5ef6

Regards,





[Edited at 2017-06-27 08:51 GMT]


 
LilianNekipelov
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Translators are not coders, or even IT people, per se Jun 28, 2017

Translation is closer to writing than coding, so that would not be appropriate. it is an art more than anything else, even if you get paid for the work. Journalists do too, right--get paid?

 
Mario Chavez (X)
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Apples and, oranges from Mars comparison Jun 29, 2017

The article is silly, but I suppose it appeals to the Millenial's can-do-anything mind and their besotted attitude towards anything coming from Silicon Valley.

I'm with Lilian on this one. The article reminds me of a brief exchange I had with someone on Twitter a couple years ago. He said that languages are like math, like equations or algebra. There are so many ways of telling him how wrong he is, but I just ignored him.


 
Kuochoe Nikoi-Kotei
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Ghana
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Japanese to English
True to life Jun 29, 2017

The way the "translator" put up with ridiculous request after ridiculous request from the "potential client" before finally throwing in the towel was a little too lifelike *shudder*.

 


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