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I can't speak to doctors, but I know a few nurse practitioners and jobs will auto-reject if you don't have the correct specialty. A quick search reveals there's
by sa46 6y ago
I can't speak to doctors, but I know a few nurse practitioners and jobs will auto-reject if you don't have the correct specialty. A quick search reveals there's at least 13 specialties [1]. "We need an adult gerontology nurse practitioner, not orthopedics."
I thought this was interesting because a common programmer hiring model assumes you can train an exceptional programmer to your specific stack regardless of their existing specialty. I'd argue programming specialties are still broad, maybe frontend, backend, iOS, android, and embedded. Perhaps as the software development matures, we'll see more specialized fragmentation.
[1]: https://nursinglicensemap.com/advanced-practice-nursing/nurse-practitioner/ https://nursinglicensemap.com/advanced-practice-nursing/nurs...
- thesehands 6y agoYou can train programmers because there is time and there aren’t often lives at stake. Nurses have to hit the ground running in specialist areas where there is (I’d assume) often little time to acquire all necessary skills in order to perform at the required level
- kthejoker2 6y agoIoT, distributed systems, security, networking, statistical computing, analytics, AI/ML, deep learning, robotics/autonomous driving (waaay more than embedded), operating systems, quantum, DevOps... The fact that I can name a dozen programming specialties that have nothing to do with your list at all is a tell
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoAll of those specialties exist, true, but they add up to almost nothing. I'd wager that better than 95% of software developers are either web frontend or backend with a small sprinkling of mobile mixed in.