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Another episode of the title wars. "You can't call yourself an engineer when you don't have a degree from an engineering school", "You are not an architect if

Another episode of the title wars. "You can't call yourself an engineer when you don't have a degree from an engineering school", "You are not an architect if you didn't study architecture in college" blah blah blah Can we please put these debates to rest? it's tiring already. Yeah, recruitment is frustrating since everyone likes to over inflate or lie outright about the accomplishments and qualifications on their CV but it's been established a long time ago that this is part of the process and the onus is on the interviewer or recruiter to screen the applicants and tell who's the real deal and who's not, it's part of their job after all.

TheOtherHobbes 11y ago
Title inflation lowers the perceived value of professional development work. It goes from "I don't understand what you're doing, but it looks hard" to "My ten year old nephew set up a WordPress site, so why should I pay you $150k a year to build the CRUD backend for my brilliant startup idea?" All professions that don't have gatekeepers, certification, and strong professional associations suffer from declining salaries. The difference between good and bad web dev is the difference between a site that scales, is maintainable, secure, and reliable, and looks nice, as opposed to a WP site that does none of the above. (But looks nice - maybe.) I've talked to "designers" who say things like "I don't know if we can do that - I leave all those details to my technical people." It turns out all the "designer" did was pick a font and a colour scheme and draw a few wireframes. And they got the job because they knew someone on the board. Meanwhile the "technical people" have done all the real work - and could probably make a site look just as good if they'd been asked to.
- nofearinc 11y ago
  Agreed with all of the above. I'm even surprised that more of the "hardcore devs" didn't get annoyed by WordPress crossing the 25% web market share a week ago. I can see how more and more large businesses turn to WordPress to cut license costs, decrease salaries, reduce development time and invest more in marketing/advertisement instead. That comment is also for everyone who mentioned that the post reflects only to the state of a single business instead of an entire community, ecosystem and the business of web development as a whole.

TheOtherHobbes 11y ago

Title inflation lowers the perceived value of professional development work. It goes from "I don't understand what you're doing, but it looks hard" to "My ten year old nephew set up a WordPress site, so why should I pay you $150k a year to build the CRUD backend for my brilliant startup idea?" All professions that don't have gatekeepers, certification, and strong professional associations suffer from declining salaries. The difference between good and bad web dev is the difference between a site that scales, is maintainable, secure, and reliable, and looks nice, as opposed to a WP site that does none of the above. (But looks nice - maybe.) I've talked to "designers" who say things like "I don't know if we can do that - I leave all those details to my technical people." It turns out all the "designer" did was pick a font and a colour scheme and draw a few wireframes. And they got the job because they knew someone on the board. Meanwhile the "technical people" have done all the real work - and could probably make a site look just as good if they'd been asked to.

nofearinc 11y ago
Agreed with all of the above. I'm even surprised that more of the "hardcore devs" didn't get annoyed by WordPress crossing the 25% web market share a week ago. I can see how more and more large businesses turn to WordPress to cut license costs, decrease salaries, reduce development time and invest more in marketing/advertisement instead. That comment is also for everyone who mentioned that the post reflects only to the state of a single business instead of an entire community, ecosystem and the business of web development as a whole.