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> Improving developer skills is not valuable to your company Every company I've ever worked at has genuinely believed in and invested in improving developer sk
by simonw 7mo ago
> Improving developer skills is not valuable to your company
Every company I've ever worked at has genuinely believed in and invested in improving developer skills.
- Waterluvian 7mo agoThat’s been my experience, too. But now I get a sort of, “I dunno. Maybe don’t use AI on Fridays?” There doesn’t seem to be a plan for maintaining that culture.
- tonyedgecombe 7mo agoEvery company I worked for didn’t give a shit about my skills. They just wanted to solve the problem in front of them and if they couldn’t then they would hire someone in with the right skills. Improving my skills was seen as a risk as I might leave.
- catlifeonmars 7mo agoI’ve had both experiences, sometimes at the exact same company.
- 01284a7e 7mo agoThe opposite is true in my case - though 1 organization that had a small budget for things like AWS certs. I remember almost everyone who would get those certificates would never really learn anything from it either. They would just take the exams.
- Supermancho 7mo agoI've worked for 35ish companies (contract and fulltime), largely on the west coast of the US. I have experienced the lip service, from the vast majority. I have experienced maybe 2 or 3 earnest attempts at growing engineer skills through subsidized admission/travel to talks, tools, or invited instructors.
- aduwah 7mo agoHard same over 20 years
- bdangubic 7mo agoThis percentage is probably right on the money!
- tasuki 7mo ago> I've worked for 35ish companies It seems they were correct not to invest in your skills. I've worked for six companies over almost 20 years. The majority invested in my skills, and I hope that investment has paid off for them!
- oblio 7mo agoIf you include consulting that could easily be 10 companies a year...
- tasuki 7mo agoCould easily be, yes. And they'd be right not to invest in OP's skills. (To explicitly state the obvious: I'm not saying OP's a bad person for doing this, just saying the employers were right not to invest in them...)
- lsaferite 7mo agoWhy would a company you are consulting for invest in training you up exactly? They are paying a consultant with the expectation that they are bringing the knowledge.
- 21asdffdsa12 7mo agoEh, consultants are brought in not for the knowledge or advice! Management already knows what todo and where to go- they just want somebody external sanctify the decision!
- dspillett 7mo ago
- kajaktum 7mo agoYou must be lucky then.
- simonw 7mo agoRealizing now that I've been both lucky and selective - I've always picked the kind of employers where this culture is baked in.
- jasomill 7mo agoGiven the rest of the paragraph, I believe the parent is trying to say that merely improving developer skills is not valuable to the company, not that improving developer skills cannot provide value in terms of improved work product, morale, retention, etc.