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This is basically how my mother was trained as a programmer. She got a job, was literally handed a stack of books and reference material and started figuring sh
by was_boring 9y ago
This is basically how my mother was trained as a programmer. She got a job, was literally handed a stack of books and reference material and started figuring shit out.
She changed careers before I can really remember her at that job, but I too am self-taught in this field (but I trained myself at home).
The whole idea of companies not investing in their people is relatively new.
- vanilla_nut 9y agoTo be fair, employees are no longer particularly faithful to employers-- after all, it's considered completely normal to spend only 2-5 years at a job, then move to the next one. This definitely complicates the benefits of on-the-job training: why waste 3-12 months training somebody to basic competence when they might leave a few months after that? Some of this is obviously due to employees fighting back against stagnant wages/lack of promotions, but it makes me wonder: who started the faithlessness first, employers or employees?
- bradleyjg 9y agoI don't know about started, it's been back and forth forever, but in recent history a big epochal change was the hostile takeover movement of the 80s. Many companies, including those that had had a reputation for loyalty to their employees, were bought out by corporate raiders who often took actions that lead to huge number of layoffs.