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> This has made the field ridiculously competitive and has also made it really difficult for employers to tell the yuppies apart from the true hobbyists. This
by tsimionescu 2y ago
> This has made the field ridiculously competitive and has also made it really difficult for employers to tell the yuppies apart from the true hobbyists.
This is an extremely funny way for a place like YC to put this problem. The same place that views employment as a purely contractual based relationship, with at-will firing and with a concept that people shouldn't stay in the same job for too long is lamenting the appearance of workers who view things the same way and couldn't care less about your vision, and definitely won't sacrifice their personal life for your business' success, since it's not their hobby.
- ghaff 2y agoThere’s very much this bifurcation here, perhaps almost unique to jobs that also happen to generally pay well, at least in the US, of people for whom software development is a job you do like any other vs. it having to be some all-consuming passion.
- spacemadness 2y agoYC being about startups and business and profit at all costs deriding people who go into it for money is a hell of a take. I’d say they’d love to see software become a passion industry so they can pay less like they do in most positions in every passion industry. The way software is developed for profit is a far cry from developing software from a hobbiest or passion perspective.
- joshdavham 2y agoI realize I probably should've linked to the YC video: https://youtu.be/ia7IKW0yuG0?si=2a3xvKDZUZxZ_her&t=376 https://youtu.be/ia7IKW0yuG0?si=2a3xvKDZUZxZ_her&t=376