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Agree. There are plenty of traditional engineering jobs here in Kansas City, and they most definitely require a BS, if not higher. Nowadays the media only equ
by madengr 9y ago
Agree. There are plenty of traditional engineering jobs here in Kansas City, and they most definitely require a BS, if not higher. Nowadays the media only equates software with “high tech”.
- bdcravens 9y agoI don't think the article is discounting those roles, only saying mid-tech is more common in KC than SF.
- meritt 9y agoDoes KC have a startup culture yet? There's always been ample engineering jobs (sprint, cerner, garmin, dst, perceptive, etc) but that's what I imagine you're describing as traditional (as opposed to the less euphemistic "blue collar")? Those jobs provide a vastly different culture that appeals to a very different type of software engineer than you'll encounter in the Bay area, Austin, Seattle, Portland, NYC, etc. That culture is precisely why I left KC. It felt too much like I was living in a Dilbert cartoon. I agree on education though: KC places a very high level of importance on a degree as opposed to ones ability to get things done. This was a decade ago, but I lost count the number of BS/MS/PhD CS-degree-holders I interviewed in KC who couldn't code fizzbuzz.
- madengr 9y agoYou won't find the brogrammer hipster startups. What you'll find are small companies in vanilla office and industrial parks. The whole "startup" is asinine. In the old'n days it was callled "starting a business". Things such as medical devices, specialized aerospace parts, etc.