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My biggest problem is this: While there is a surplus of remote only positions, this surplus always wants the same thing: very senior developers with tons of wid

by Shank 8y ago

My biggest problem is this: While there is a surplus of remote only positions, this surplus always wants the same thing: very senior developers with tons of wide experience sets. Seems like there's a lot of talent being left on the floor by only looking for senior developers. There's a lot of goodwill that can be earned by trusting in potential and helping candidates grow into a position. Even an experienced developer in one set of languages and frameworks is junior to others -- and they can't get the foot in the door anywhere remotely. The "years of experience" drought is real, but I feel like it's an eternal desert for remote work.

UlisesAC4 8y ago
That is something bad at our industry. Managers or whoever do that decision believes that being senior automagically makes you a genious, when it can be the other way around, the more senior you are, the more averse to change you are. I doubt that senior could easily change to remote lifestyle after years of onsite. People must learn that anyone can be remote, the thing is that everyone must agree to communicate better instead of more.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  > the more senior you are, the more averse to change you are. I doubt that senior could easily change to remote lifestyle after years of onsite. Why not? Going from on-site to remote is strictly easier, as the only thing it needs is to stop leaving home every morning. I don't get this "the more senior you are, the more averse to change you are" - the only thing I've seen is older people having higher expectations and less tolerance for abuse and working for pie-in-the-sky promises of future wealth. But maybe my bias is showing, I'm nearing 30, so pretty old by software industry standards.
- IOT_Apprentice 8y ago
  LOL. What makes someone senior? What are the advantages that being senior brings to the job at hand? Should we all be non-senior instead so that we have no experience or skills formed? Change is a part of life. You are going to get older and then die. Too often, technology firms worship youth at the expense of experience. In any case, youth ages and then it is your turn in the box, being lectured by the next generation about how averse to change YOU are. sigh.

by Shank 8y ago

UlisesAC4 8y ago

That is something bad at our industry. Managers or whoever do that decision believes that being senior automagically makes you a genious, when it can be the other way around, the more senior you are, the more averse to change you are. I doubt that senior could easily change to remote lifestyle after years of onsite. People must learn that anyone can be remote, the thing is that everyone must agree to communicate better instead of more.

TeMPOraL 8y ago
> the more senior you are, the more averse to change you are. I doubt that senior could easily change to remote lifestyle after years of onsite. Why not? Going from on-site to remote is strictly easier, as the only thing it needs is to stop leaving home every morning. I don't get this "the more senior you are, the more averse to change you are" - the only thing I've seen is older people having higher expectations and less tolerance for abuse and working for pie-in-the-sky promises of future wealth. But maybe my bias is showing, I'm nearing 30, so pretty old by software industry standards.
IOT_Apprentice 8y ago
LOL. What makes someone senior? What are the advantages that being senior brings to the job at hand? Should we all be non-senior instead so that we have no experience or skills formed? Change is a part of life. You are going to get older and then die. Too often, technology firms worship youth at the expense of experience. In any case, youth ages and then it is your turn in the box, being lectured by the next generation about how averse to change YOU are. sigh.