[watwut]

Job offerings look for "engineers" while they mean coders. Young person who think he/she does not count as engineer will pass over that job, despite being fully able to get it and work there. "You are not actually engineer" is bad advice in current job market.

(I used to be that young person and used to pass on opportunities because of superficial reasons like that.)

[sheldor]

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[watwut]

Better for competition who gets the job with the same qualification and skills maybe, better for you personally (in both terms of what you learn and how good jobs you get) - no.

[sheldor]

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[watwut]

Work life is as real as home life. And software work bubble is as real as any other bubble. What any of that has with values, I dont know.