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This just feels like arbitrary gate keeping. The vast majority of people would consider any kind of coding work a "tech" job. Maybe there's not much innovation
by evilos 4y ago
This just feels like arbitrary gate keeping. The vast majority of people would consider any kind of coding work a "tech" job.
Maybe there's not much innovation happening in these jobs, but that's a different topic.
- badpun 4y ago> The vast majority of people would consider any kind of coding work a "tech" job. I'm not so sure. Even on Wall Street (which is pretty mainstream), "Tech" means FAANGs and similar, not a yogurt factory releasing its iOS calorie counting app.
- WoodenChair 4y agoYou’re confusing “novel” with “tech.” Very few people work on novel problems as programmers compared to the number of programmers. It doesn’t mean they don’t work on/with “tech.” A baker may just follow recipes. It doesn’t mean he’s not a baker.
- evilos 4y agoThat is in the context of companies. Agreed, a yogurt company is not a "tech" company. But someone who programs their mobile app certainly has a "tech" job.
- awinder 4y agoTechnology is a sector classification, but for any other company in other sectors, they likely have a business unit called Technology, with a c-suite position called chief technology officer, with developers who hold computer science degrees (just like at Google! No wai?! Yes wai!) MasterCard is also a tech SPDR holding, for… reasons? And finally, Netflix is a tech company with a film studio, but Disney is a film studio with a technology application, and I can’t meaningfully disambiguate why someone who works on Netflix code is in technology and a Disney+ developer is not.