Last week, I had to conduct interviews to hire senior Java developers with around 5 years of experience. But after the interview process was over, I felt like frameworks make developers’ lives easier but, at the same time, make them dumber.
Everyone puts almost all the new frameworks on their resume, claiming they have “Strong, working experience on Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, etc.”.
Here is how the interviews went.
Me: You have used Spring in your latest project. What are the advantages of using Spring?
Interviewee: We can configure beans in XML, and it will take care of instantiating and giving them to us.

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A Java developer shares observations from conducting senior developer interviews, where candidates claimed strong experience with Spring, Hibernate, and REST but couldn't explain the underlying concepts behind the frameworks they used daily. The author argues that while frameworks boost productivity, developers must understand the fundamentals beneath them. Recommends starting with Core Java, Servlets, and JSP before adopting frameworks to build genuine understanding.

Are frameworks making developers dumb?