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Beeing a full-stack engineer isn’t problematic. But searching those amongst really young people may be misguided. Because yes, learning takes time. If you want

Beeing a full-stack engineer isn’t problematic. But searching those amongst really young people may be misguided. Because yes, learning takes time. If you want someone with profound knowledge and experience in nearly every programming language, concept and project management methodology, you should look for people in their 50s. Those, who had time to invest 35k-40k hours into their passion and are going strong still. The real „unicorns“!

alexfromapex 4y ago
As a self-proclaimed full-stack person with some mastery in a lot of areas, the biggest hurdle I've had is actually the interview process which is very frustrating. I constantly get smug interviewers who ask questions a specialist in X, Y, or Z would know. In some cases I know the right answer, but because I have dealt with so many FE, BE, DevOps, and data technologies I have evolved to learning the art of learning, generalized good practices, the context around tech, and the architecture decisions needed to apply them, instead of the minute details of each technology. To make matters worse for my working memory, I have started learning knowledge about other industries outside of pure software. To the average interviewer, this makes me look inexperienced or untalented. If instead I am evaluated based on applied knowledge in the form of a take-home tech assessment I always pass with flying colors. It's very frustrating and is pushing the industry towards only being able to see the trees and not the forest which can't be good.
- st-keller 4y ago
  I feel you! I worked with Hashes in Perl since the 90s, Did almost 10 years of Java used Dictionaries in the early versions of C#, switched to JS, Ruby and Clojure for a while and didn‘t remember how to correctly declare a typed Hash in Java in a programming kata - ouch! So if you are a unicorn, you need to find a special environment i guess?
worker_person 4y ago
Older programmers are mostly white males. Lots of people don't like to hire those anymore. I hired in at one place, was informed afterwards that it was only because they were so desperate that they hired me despite my demographics. Was reminded repeatedly on my sins of being a white male.
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alexfromapex 4y ago

As a self-proclaimed full-stack person with some mastery in a lot of areas, the biggest hurdle I've had is actually the interview process which is very frustrating. I constantly get smug interviewers who ask questions a specialist in X, Y, or Z would know. In some cases I know the right answer, but because I have dealt with so many FE, BE, DevOps, and data technologies I have evolved to learning the art of learning, generalized good practices, the context around tech, and the architecture decisions needed to apply them, instead of the minute details of each technology. To make matters worse for my working memory, I have started learning knowledge about other industries outside of pure software. To the average interviewer, this makes me look inexperienced or untalented. If instead I am evaluated based on applied knowledge in the form of a take-home tech assessment I always pass with flying colors. It's very frustrating and is pushing the industry towards only being able to see the trees and not the forest which can't be good.

st-keller 4y ago
I feel you! I worked with Hashes in Perl since the 90s, Did almost 10 years of Java used Dictionaries in the early versions of C#, switched to JS, Ruby and Clojure for a while and didn‘t remember how to correctly declare a typed Hash in Java in a programming kata - ouch! So if you are a unicorn, you need to find a special environment i guess?

worker_person 4y ago

Older programmers are mostly white males. Lots of people don't like to hire those anymore. I hired in at one place, was informed afterwards that it was only because they were so desperate that they hired me despite my demographics. Was reminded repeatedly on my sins of being a white male.

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