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by austin-cheney
957 days ago
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Absolutely anybody is employable in software. This deeply buried comment was still upvoted 20 times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37966978 All you have to do is pass an interview. Now by far the greatest challenge to attaining software employment is surviving resume death in order to make it to an interview. This has taught me a few things about hiring this year: * Get out of software. Ideally this means get into management but can also mean sliding into something else laterally like project management. * Or, be happy being a permanent beginner with elevated titles to compensate for years of service with no innovation, initiative, or real technical growth because all you do is chase trends and use tools. * If you want to stand out don’t be awesome. Things like superior competence are great for becoming an entrepreneur but not for employment. Just be smart enough and experienced enough to talk through an interview. If you do want to stand out AND be employable then have something other developers don’t have like a security clearance and/or professional certifications. |
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1. I'm not convinced that 20 upvotes on a hacker news thread is indicative of trends in the industry at large
2. As an amateur pilot who just got their PPL, it's also a rather unsubstantiated take.
Most pilots do not understand how their planes work at a fundamental level (it's an entirely separate discipline known as aeronautics). They understand how to operate the plane, how to respond to real world situations, etc. but one could just as easily claim that's essentially analogous to a software engineer understanding how to perform basic debugging on frameworks such as React, Angular, etc.