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“Mediocrity + two years of tech experience = six figures. Kids who can code and are two years out of school, who are mediocre, are making $100,000-plus in the m
by slimscsi 7y ago
“Mediocrity + two years of tech experience = six figures. Kids who can code and are two years out of school, who are mediocre, are making $100,000-plus in the market. What’s worse is that they believe they’re worth it. If you can code, yay for you. But you have no real hard skills or management ability.“
So, when this bubble breaks, companies will lay off the coders and have a bunch of managers managing each other into profitability? Makes perfect sense.
Implying Management is a “hard skill” and coding isn’t Is disingenuous at best.
- braindouche 7y agoHave you ever been laid off? Because that's EXACTLY how it happens. The young, new, and expensively specialized are dumped first. (It's less about hard and soft skills than it is about generalist vs specialist, and business school preaches that management science is a generalist practice.)
- slimscsi 7y agoI have, and the companies then failed. Because without the developers, bugs weren't getting fixed, and new features weren't getting developed. If they trimmed from the middle, killing the layer of middle management first, they may still have failed, but not as quickly. The middle managers cost more than the developers, and by not maintaining the products they would not have shed paying customers as quickly.