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It's easy to make a website look pretty - which is what I find bootcamp people can be good at. That's a very small part of software development. They've, in m
by kojeovo 8y ago
It's easy to make a website look pretty - which is what I find bootcamp people can be good at.
That's a very small part of software development.
They've, in my experience, struggled with highly distributed and scalable applications/systems.
- sombremesa 8y agoMost people don't need to make their own solutions for that anymore either, since we have AWS, GCP, GKE, etc. However, we software engineers (as well as computer scientists and devs) tend to underestimate how much we've already learned and internalized. It becomes painfully obvious when you try to teach someone, and realize that you need to start at a much earlier point than you expected.
- mrep 8y agoWhat's funny is that I have only worked for the big tech companies since I graduated and I know how to do all the backend stuff really well and thus I can do it in a few weeks for my side projects. However, the fronted code kills me and I keep stalling and getting confused on my new projects trying to figure out all the js/html/css to make it look really good for normal users...
- AlexCoventry 8y agoJust make it functional with react/redux, then hire a designer to give you feedback on it.