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First: Good job on the author! I don't think I could make 300 application in a three months, and I am fortunate that I have never needed to. This is impressive
by TorKlingberg 10y ago
First: Good job on the author! I don't think I could make 300 application in a three months, and I am fortunate that I have never needed to. This is impressive determination and focus, and it paid off.
Second: Wow, programming is becoming a commodity. This is literally 1) Learn the latest trendy framework and nothing else, 2) Study to the test, 3) Interview well. Either the market will be flooded and salaries for generic JS devs will crash, or strong programmers need to find a way to differentiate themselves that cannot be copied by anyone in 2 months.
- seangrogg 10y agoI'd argue that if strong programmers can't find a way to differentiate themselves from weak programmers in 2 months then yes, programming (from a hiring perspective) has become commoditized. That being said, we're currently in a time where most of the "development talent" that we have actively employed are working on little more than glorified CRUD applications. The few that are working on more specialized tasks tend to be safer from such commoditization.
- TXV 10y ago> strong programmers need to find a way to differentiate themselves that cannot be copied by anyone in 2 months they are already doing that with machine learning.