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Bad: why would someone qualified to give advice want to join the community? What prevents your forums from devolving into the blind leading the blind? Yes, tha
by calvinmorrison 4y ago
Bad: why would someone qualified to give advice want to join the community? What prevents your forums from devolving into the blind leading the blind?
Yes, that's my experience with cscareerquestions, lots of questions about the big 4, doing leetcode to get into google, facebook, etc. A lot less about where most programmers are probably employed, small to medium businesses doing boring ETL, large companies in a enterprise environment using ITIL, doing lots of web development, and very little engineering.
- abirch 4y agoThe difficult thing is seeing the forest from the trees. It's great that some advice worked for a particular person in a particular situation. It's impossible to have principal component analysis of what really worked. It's even more depressing to see what a large role that randomness plays in lives and careers. E.g., if Yahoo had bought out Larry & Sergey for a million, would their advice be worth more than now? If Steve Jobs never returned to Apple?
- mhink 4y agoAs a side note: check out /r/ExperiencedDevs.
- rpandey1234 4y agoI wasn't aware of this subreddit, thanks.
- calvinmorrison 4y agoNice. anyone have suggestions for 'i was a dev now i work in a businesss facing role'?
- tfehring 4y agoThere might be a subreddit for your specific business-facing role, e.g. /r/ProductManagement and /r/FPandA are both pretty good in my experience.