Surprised they didn't get fired for reading/learning at work when you're paid to be programming all the time. Although I've never been fired for reading at work, I've had it made clear on multiple occasions at different jobs that reading wouldn't be tolerated, and I was already down a couple of strikes.
Outside of work hours, of course. You're paid to program, not to learn.
At the end of the day you're not paid to program, you're paid to solve problems, and typically that's easiest to achieve by producing code.
Sometimes the problem is you don't know a particular language or toolkit even if it's the best fit for a problem domain...
It's on you for hiring someone that didn't already know everything. Don't expect them to put in free time to understand whatever infrastructure and code you have in place.
Surely what they learnt at bootcamp is less than worthless.
:)
And isn't programming a matter of continuous learning? How is anyone supposed to do a job like that and not be learning? You really expect your employees to learn everything they need to do their job outside of work? WTF?
Story time? Please?
You definitely seem like a good prospect for the following "workplace of hell" saga? ;)
C++ as a language for an enterprise business logic software like a payment system in this case? You put together Stroustrup, Thompson, Pike and Torvalds and they still would probably fail to deliver a fully working project or at best it would be very past the delivery schedule (until of course they "cheat" and develop appropriate DSL and compiler/runtime for it first :)