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Everyone has been trying to get into tech for the last 4 years. My wife works in healthcare. There are whole facebook groups dedicated to healthcare workers t
by nerdix 2y ago
Everyone has been trying to get into tech for the last 4 years.
My wife works in healthcare. There are whole facebook groups dedicated to healthcare workers trying to transition into tech. A lot of these people are clinicians (Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Speech Pathologists, etc).
There are a lot of people looking for WFH jobs and tech seems to be where they turn first. Honestly, I blame the glut of low effort "Day in the life of a Software Engineer" youtube videos where the "worker" spends most of the video walking their dog and going for a casual afternoon jog while fast forwarding through the actual work. There has been a lot of glamorizing of tech jobs on social media that doesn't typically really match reality.
Obviously, we all know about the trend of bootcamps promising six figure jobs after 2 months (though that seems to have tapered off a bit).
I've read a lot of resumes over the last 4 years and I feel like I've seen it all. I've had multiple senior developer openings and I've seen resumes with just about every background you can think of. Waiters, fast food workers, mechanics, pest control, construction workers. No actual real word programming experience, only a list of a few bootcamp group projects with a link to a github profile where they pushed their bootcamp homework. It was especially bad if you included React in the job description at all (I noticed a dramatic reduction in these types of resumes when the job description focused on backend work).
It reminds of that anecdote about stock bubbles: when your taxi driver is giving you stock tips then you know its time to sell. Well, when your waiter is talking to you about JavaScript because you wore an AWS shirt to dinner, you know that we're in a tech hiring bubble that is going to pop.
There are/were a lot of people looking for tech jobs that frankly have no business doing so. Some of them may have spent 5 figures on a bootcamp of dubious value.
- tcmart14 2y agoDoesn't match reality at all. If only these people can see the daily insanity. I just got through 2 weeks, where at the end the owner of the company had to ask me why I haven't had much progress and trying to explain that everyday for the last two weeks he has shifted the requirements so much, anything I wrote had to get thrown out the window. Literally, get updated requirements, get 75% of the way through implementation. Bam, email in my inbox telling me to forget what was last said and do something completely different.
- skirmish 2y agoThe best way to deal with such insanity is to slow down: get requirements, "design" for a few days, if requirements change "design" a few more days etc. Furious coding just burns you out, and not much progress is made in any case.
- Eumenes 2y agoYeah these people graduating from boot camps are super naive from my experience. Every single project is a ruby on rails twitter clone. Yawn. What happened to doing something novel or applying code to a personal interest? If you love to hike or bike, make some snazzy app with GIS involved. If you like to tinker with smart home stuff, show me something interesting with arduino or pi.
- n_ary 2y agoSadly, HR doing pre-screening does not understand GIS or PI/Arduino, they do keyword match over known things, mostly known PL, popular framework, something stating that said tech were used in some activities. If they can’t pass through pre-screen, what use is the cool projects? Besides, bootcamps must make life easy and fun, teaching anything outside packaged topics will scare away the students and the revenue.
- nradov 2y agoHow long until the autonomous Waymo taxis start giving stock tips? Buy GOOG?
- n_ary 2y agoIf I were Waymo, I’d try to gain some market majority(or competitive majority, e.g. taxi vs uber), and then slowly start test pilot of showing ads while the ride is running… Or even audio ads works, pretend it to be radio fully generated with generative AI and inject subtle ads. Providing stock tips have zero revenue possibilities, but could be useful to have a channel talking about stock market movement today and what the experts are thinking.