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It's not too hard to pick up new tech when you've been in the industry for a while. You can even do it on the job with some afterwork study. To me the problem
by tamrix 6y ago
It's not too hard to pick up new tech when you've been in the industry for a while. You can even do it on the job with some afterwork study.
To me the problem is the emphasis some companies place on knowing specific tech.
>Must have five years experience in Web development with a focus on front end frameworks eg react/angular and cloud experience (aws preferred)
VS
>must have two years experience with the following; asp net 5.0, aspnet mvc 5.0, automapper, xunit, tiny ioc and azure Webapps
However, typical the good companies have the former. So you can spot it out pretty easy. Although I fear the industry is moving more to specific skill sets and certification. The certificates trend is being pushed harder as it makes a lot of money for these companies.
- fendy3002 6y agoIn my country I can easily fake the years experience. If you're good enough at the tools, you can bluff at the interview. Usually at least 3 from 4 companies will continue with the recruitment. With certification, I don't think it'll happen in near future, due to how hard it is to certificate a programmer and how scarce they are right now. Though it's possible for outsourced foreign developers such as India to be required certification.
- underwater 6y agoIt's not hard, but as someone who's done it a few times before you lack intrinsic motivation. Something that is fun to people half your age is just work for you.
- dajohnson89 6y ago"afterwork study" for work sounds like "work" to me.
- pdimitar 6y ago> You can even do it on the job with some afterwork study. What this assertion misses is that many no longer want to work in their free time anymore. Even if I love programming ever since 12y/o I can no longer make myself care about $day_job when I can have a proper rest, which is precious and not that much anyway.