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Skimming your comments: You deeply detest everything related to AI, cloud, and startups. It’s not age discrimination per-se, but it’s because you're actively d

Skimming your comments: You deeply detest everything related to AI, cloud, and startups. It’s not age discrimination per-se, but it’s because you're actively dragging your heels on the technologies that companies are hiring for. You can probably find a job doing maintenance on some PHP or Rails app that hasn't been updated since Obama’s first term, but the pay is likely also going to come from that era.

true_religion 3y ago
Maybe they should try applying in the east coast. There is no AI, cloud or startups here. You will have to stomach finance or the military industrial complex though.
- troynt 3y ago
  False
- dgellow 3y ago
  Plenty of startups in NYC
  - red-iron-pine 3y ago
    plenty of other tech in NYC too. ISPs, all sorts of F500 orgs (not just finance), etc. The rents are no joke, but if I had to be out of a job and in tech, NYC or SF would be top picks (maybe Denver, Austin, DC, or RDU after that).
ipaddr 3y ago
What skill would you suggest he learn?
- hipadev23 3y ago
  If he doesn't want to actually learn AI/ML itself, there's an endless number of adjacent jobs related to all the hype: * web dev - today the majority of the jobs are very heavily ts/js, react, next.js, vercel, etc. * data engineering - AI/ML is very hungry for clean, organized, and accessible data. so we're talking sql, data warehousing, spark, beam, kafka * infra/devops - nearly every tech company needs these people: docker, kubernetes, terraform, ci/cd, gitops, metrics and monitoring tools like prometheus and grafana
johnnyanmac 3y ago
>you're actively dragging your heels on the technologies that companies are hiring for. because only AI, cloud, and startups are hiring? What a weird interpretation to make of someone based off of a comment history on the internet. We don't even know what domain they work in.
- selfmodruntime 3y ago
  No, because even if you are at a pretty standard company, you will be expected to deal with these technologies
  - johnnyanmac 3y ago
    Maybe in 10 years AI will be "standard", but as of now I'd be surprised if anyone meets the stereotypical HR requirements of "5 years of AI experience" Personally haven't had to deal with Cloud. My domain leaves that to network engineers on the product and probably devops for the company servers. It's there but Ive never been expected to touch it.
  - Cthulhu_ 3y ago
    Nah. Cloud is a maybe, I (front-end focused) don't deal with cloud technology directly. I should, but I find it draining.
- hipadev23 3y ago
  I could give the standard “ah shucks brother keep your head up!” advice that most people do. Or I can give tactical suggestions, which may be a bit hard to stomach, so he can improve his odds at landing a job. It’s fairly easy to infer his job domain from comments. He mentions web technologies and SQL often. He refers to himself as a dev, not as an engineer, and he mentions running numerous websites. He probably got his start working in “IT” (nobody says IT anymore, but he still does) in the 90s in support or technician roles and moved into full-stack web developer roles around dotcom. He also comes across as low self-confidence due to “I've almost always gotten good to great performance reviews” instead of telling us why he’s an excellent dev. That likely comes out in interviews and further hurts his chances.

true_religion 3y ago

Maybe they should try applying in the east coast. There is no AI, cloud or startups here. You will have to stomach finance or the military industrial complex though.

troynt 3y ago
False
dgellow 3y ago
Plenty of startups in NYC
- red-iron-pine 3y ago
  plenty of other tech in NYC too. ISPs, all sorts of F500 orgs (not just finance), etc. The rents are no joke, but if I had to be out of a job and in tech, NYC or SF would be top picks (maybe Denver, Austin, DC, or RDU after that).

ipaddr 3y ago

What skill would you suggest he learn?

hipadev23 3y ago
If he doesn't want to actually learn AI/ML itself, there's an endless number of adjacent jobs related to all the hype: * web dev - today the majority of the jobs are very heavily ts/js, react, next.js, vercel, etc. * data engineering - AI/ML is very hungry for clean, organized, and accessible data. so we're talking sql, data warehousing, spark, beam, kafka * infra/devops - nearly every tech company needs these people: docker, kubernetes, terraform, ci/cd, gitops, metrics and monitoring tools like prometheus and grafana

johnnyanmac 3y ago

>you're actively dragging your heels on the technologies that companies are hiring for. because only AI, cloud, and startups are hiring? What a weird interpretation to make of someone based off of a comment history on the internet. We don't even know what domain they work in.

selfmodruntime 3y ago
No, because even if you are at a pretty standard company, you will be expected to deal with these technologies
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  Maybe in 10 years AI will be "standard", but as of now I'd be surprised if anyone meets the stereotypical HR requirements of "5 years of AI experience" Personally haven't had to deal with Cloud. My domain leaves that to network engineers on the product and probably devops for the company servers. It's there but Ive never been expected to touch it.
- Cthulhu_ 3y ago
  Nah. Cloud is a maybe, I (front-end focused) don't deal with cloud technology directly. I should, but I find it draining.
hipadev23 3y ago
I could give the standard “ah shucks brother keep your head up!” advice that most people do. Or I can give tactical suggestions, which may be a bit hard to stomach, so he can improve his odds at landing a job. It’s fairly easy to infer his job domain from comments. He mentions web technologies and SQL often. He refers to himself as a dev, not as an engineer, and he mentions running numerous websites. He probably got his start working in “IT” (nobody says IT anymore, but he still does) in the 90s in support or technician roles and moved into full-stack web developer roles around dotcom. He also comes across as low self-confidence due to “I've almost always gotten good to great performance reviews” instead of telling us why he’s an excellent dev. That likely comes out in interviews and further hurts his chances.