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Many companies are filtering candidates in favor of mercenaries while pretending they are looking for dependable, committed professionals. If you don’t have sp

Many companies are filtering candidates in favor of mercenaries while pretending they are looking for dependable, committed professionals. If you don’t have specific experience with some CTOs favorite esoteric API or don’t have experience in the same, specific corner of some insurance or usury industry, your ability to actually engineer solutions is considered irrelevant. It’s as if the industry has forgotten that building software is about the application of algorithms to data structures to accomplish some user need. Instead, company after company wants to hot glue some service via some API using some framework on some cloud platform. And because the MBA decision-maker can write Excel macros with GPT, we don’t need programmers to build systems anymore. Just wire up foo SaaS to bar SaaS and MVPFailFastLeanAgile our way to success! Sorry for the rant…

dartos 2y ago
Yeah well what do recruiters know about software development? They just know the keywords the EMs and C suite sent them in the headcount request.
- trentnix 2y ago
  That EMs and the C-suite think solving their engineering needs is to add "headcount" is the bigger problem.
  - dartos 2y ago
    That’s what they thought in 2021. Now that money isn’t free, they think the problem is too many engineers.
realityfactchex 2y ago
Thanks, much appreciated
scott_w 2y ago
> It’s as if the industry has forgotten that building software is about... This really isn't new. A look at Slashdot will give you similar complaints as far back as at least the 2000s. I'm sure someone older than me will dig up Usenet posts with exactly the same complaints and tell me to get off their lawn ;-)
- disgruntledphd2 2y ago
  If we'd had software engineers in Sumeria, there'd be a bunch of tablets with the same complaints;)
svilen_dobrev 2y ago
> It’s as if the industry has forgotten that building software is about the application of algorithms to data structures to accomplish some user need My 3 months experience searching - and getting only ~3-4 initial interviews - is the New-AI-Kids-on-Da-Block think software-engineering is just another plumbing for their Artificially Great Intelligence. One CEO even used the exact word. waw. Plumbers make real good $$$..
- namaria 2y ago
  They are just saying the quite part out loud now because they think they can finally get away with that. Well when the discount plumbing they are getting put in starts to leak shit all over the place there will be a premium again in actually knowing how to do it properly.
  - hombre_fatal 2y ago
    Though getting a job at the fixer consultancies they might use isn't any easier. :P

dartos 2y ago

Yeah well what do recruiters know about software development? They just know the keywords the EMs and C suite sent them in the headcount request.

trentnix 2y ago
That EMs and the C-suite think solving their engineering needs is to add "headcount" is the bigger problem.
- dartos 2y ago
  That’s what they thought in 2021. Now that money isn’t free, they think the problem is too many engineers.

realityfactchex 2y ago

Thanks, much appreciated

scott_w 2y ago

> It’s as if the industry has forgotten that building software is about... This really isn't new. A look at Slashdot will give you similar complaints as far back as at least the 2000s. I'm sure someone older than me will dig up Usenet posts with exactly the same complaints and tell me to get off their lawn ;-)

disgruntledphd2 2y ago
If we'd had software engineers in Sumeria, there'd be a bunch of tablets with the same complaints;)

svilen_dobrev 2y ago

> It’s as if the industry has forgotten that building software is about the application of algorithms to data structures to accomplish some user need My 3 months experience searching - and getting only ~3-4 initial interviews - is the New-AI-Kids-on-Da-Block think software-engineering is just another plumbing for their Artificially Great Intelligence. One CEO even used the exact word. waw. Plumbers make real good $$$..

namaria 2y ago
They are just saying the quite part out loud now because they think they can finally get away with that. Well when the discount plumbing they are getting put in starts to leak shit all over the place there will be a premium again in actually knowing how to do it properly.
- hombre_fatal 2y ago
  Though getting a job at the fixer consultancies they might use isn't any easier. :P