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Aren't a fair number of them are outsourcing/contracting that out, though?

• al_borland 1y ago
  Not all of them, and he just needs one. Depending on what he’s willing to tolerate starting out, he can also turn a job he might not like on paper into a development job. I started out doing sys admin work. Eventually I started building tools to help myself, which I then shared with the team. Management saw the value in that after a while and built a whole team around what I was doing and now I have a software engineer title. It wasn’t a fast way to get there, but it’s exactly the kind of job the OP seems to be looking for. When you’re a developer outside of a hardcore development team, people treat you like a wizard for doing fairly basic things.
  • BrenBarn 1y ago
    True, although both of those are hard roads in a way. Finding one of the small number of tech or tech-adjacent jobs at non-tech companies can be like looking for a needle in a haystack, since you have to comb through so many companies looking for something they don't foreground. And turning a non-dev job into a tech job is even harder since you have to first get (and probably do a decent job at) the non-dev job. It may be that this is inevitable. In fact it may be why these jobs have the advantages they do, because they're hard enough to get to that they're ignored by the people rushing for the "10x ultra high performing engineer" jobs.