So true! My first (student) job..10 years ago... I landed because of personal recommendation through a friend and yeah, for the rest I built on that. Confirming

So true! My first (student) job..10 years ago... I landed because of personal recommendation through a friend and yeah, for the rest I built on that. Confirming what you say about politics, all following jobs there was a lot of of it involved rendering the jobs eventually mechanic/boring. Especially the non-technical people at the places had really unrealistic understandings of IT and DEV in particular to a degree that tech colleagues thought everybody in MGMT must be completely stupid or insane. After having left these places after some time it's just funny. And yes, for many non-tech people hiring Junior devs is no option in my experience. No idea what these people think, but maybe this is then changing as tech becomes more relevant.. ;)