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Actually many of the younger developers I have worked with treat their jobs like a blue collar technician rather than a creative engineer. It is clear they achi
by austincheney 8y ago
Actually many of the younger developers I have worked with treat their jobs like a blue collar technician rather than a creative engineer. It is clear they achieved a CS degree they confused for a trade school. It is pretty clear these developers want all the vanity of being called a developer at a major brand without any responsibility to make independent decisions.
Proof: Have them produce results without the OOP patterns they learned in school or without their favorite framework.
- maxxxxx 8y agoI see that too. In the 90s a lot of developers were self taught and were self motivated to solve problems. With recent hires I see a lot of people who probably did CS for a good career but don’t really care about the craft. If something doesn’t work exactly as it should they just give up.
- SomethingOrNot 8y agoRemember back in <good old days> when people were authentic and real and not opportunistic fakers? Load up the resentful pioneer module, Billy.
- maxxxxx 8y agoI am not resentful. It's a pretty normal thing when a profession gets more professional and is considered highly paid. It attracts people who aren't naturally attracted to the job. From observation a lot of doctors aren't that enthusiastic about their profession either but do it for the reputation and money.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoThere is definitely a division between people who are attracted to the profession because they have an intrinsic interest and those looking for extrinsic rewards. I bet asking what age someone started programming is as good an interview question as any other.
- SomethingOrNot 8y agoI would fail that interrogation. :-)
- maxxxxx 8y agoI'd fail that too. I didn't have the money to get a computer. But I am mechanical engineer and in my first job I quickly was the guy who wrote macros for our CAD system instead of doing designs with it. I never liked using the CAD system but I loved writing code for it. That would indicate a natural attraction to writing code.
- chrisco255 8y agoI wasn't a developer in the 90s, but generally speaking, the legacy code that still exists from that era is absolute garbage.
- maxxxxx 8y agoMost of the code we are writing now will be garbage in 20 years too. Guaranteed. You do your best with the tools and knowledge you have at the moment. That's all you can do.
- chrisco255 8y agoNot mine, maxxxxx, nope, my code is TIMELESS. ;-D
- SomethingOrNot 8y agoCan they be wholly blamed? Managers and other people who have more power than young developers want developers to be replaceable cogs.
- austincheney 8y agoI mostly agree. I see this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. When a unicorn with 20 years experience cannot be found I feel like companies settle on junior developers they don't have confidence in. Because of the low confidence the standard for exceptionalism is set very low. This is extremely problematic because it directly produces entitlement (unearned praise) in a generation already stereotyped 9perhaps falsely) as exceptionally entitled. In a healthy environment organizations would hire junior developers into environments that are social inviting, but technically not at all friendly. Without challenges developers won't grow, so challenge the shit out of the juniors.
- maxxxxx 8y ago"Can they be wholly blamed? Managers and other people who have more power than young developers want developers to be replaceable cogs." I don't envy a lot of young guys whose first professional experience is to be micromanaged daily in scrum and JIRA.