I can feel the pain here but in my own way. As a hiring manager it must be so frustrating to be assaulted with massive idiocy when you are looking for a candidate. Think about it:
- candidates have zero penalty for applying to something they know they aren't qualified for
- there's constant noise about getting one of those well paying "tech jobs"
- everyone who has ever logged hello world to the console thinks they are the best programmer in the world
- people are desperate and will lie
- the ratio of unqualified to qualified candidates must be 100 to 1
It must be like dying of thirst in the middle of the ocean. The one thing I love about this, though, is the "senior developer" who hasn't read a book in a decade and has to get a new job. ahahahahaha. The moment when that mountain of BS collapses underneath them must be ga-lorious.
Also though, I get the feeling it's a different job market than it was in 2010. I'm still trying to understand what I think I see.
Languages seem to be able to cover multiple platforms now. Programming I don't think is as technical as it once was. At the same time everything seems to be a mess right now. Everything's broken. There's a million and a half frameworks for everything. ...It's like programming as a field has become much more broad, while simultaneously lowering in quality, with knowledge that was once spent on technical mastery now being traded for either lower wages or domain knowledge. So if you went to school and got a degree in programming that was once pretty impressive but now you're just some dude who can "code".
- candidates have zero penalty for applying to something they know they aren't qualified for
- there's constant noise about getting one of those well paying "tech jobs"
- everyone who has ever logged hello world to the console thinks they are the best programmer in the world
- people are desperate and will lie
- the ratio of unqualified to qualified candidates must be 100 to 1
It must be like dying of thirst in the middle of the ocean. The one thing I love about this, though, is the "senior developer" who hasn't read a book in a decade and has to get a new job. ahahahahaha. The moment when that mountain of BS collapses underneath them must be ga-lorious.
Also though, I get the feeling it's a different job market than it was in 2010. I'm still trying to understand what I think I see.
Languages seem to be able to cover multiple platforms now. Programming I don't think is as technical as it once was. At the same time everything seems to be a mess right now. Everything's broken. There's a million and a half frameworks for everything. ...It's like programming as a field has become much more broad, while simultaneously lowering in quality, with knowledge that was once spent on technical mastery now being traded for either lower wages or domain knowledge. So if you went to school and got a degree in programming that was once pretty impressive but now you're just some dude who can "code".