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It’s messed up in the other direction too, though. There’s no other STEM field where you attend a six week “boot camp” and expect to get a job. Or where people
by wrs 8y ago
It’s messed up in the other direction too, though. There’s no other STEM field where you attend a six week “boot camp” and expect to get a job. Or where people with two years of experience are “senior”.
- maxxxxx 8y agoExactly. The standards are incredibly low. This can be a good and a bad thing.
- TheTrotters 8y agoBarriers to entry are very low which is great.
- ghaff 8y agoI suspect some of it is the terminology. If your job is mostly routine tasks in a lot of fields, you're usually called a technician (well, or a "genius" if you work at an Apple store). In Silicon Valley-style tech, computer scientist/programmer/developer have all been sort of munged together. There are other areas where "engineer" is thrown around pretty liberally as well in the US. But title inflation in software is probably more pronounced than just about anywhere else.
- paulie_a 8y agoSenior is ten years +/- a year depending on what they accomplished in my opinion.
- jiveturkey 8y agoYour opinion is not the established nomenclature. Senior is widely understood to be 4 yr degree + 5 yrs experience. This means you have all the technical training plus enough professional experience to be considered fluent. At ten years you should be absolutely expert in the areas you've worked in. This is staff or senior staff level, if you also have some business acumen, ie the ability to see beyond engineering requirements.
- xenihn 8y agoWhat's your experience cutoff for someone without a CS (or equivalent) undergrad degree? Or someone who has an unrelated undergraduate degree and spent 2 years getting a CS MS?
- paulie_a 8y agoI don't really care what the established nomenclature is. I was stating what I consider senior and 5 years of industry experience doesn't cut it for me.