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by pjmlp 167 days ago
When you work in enterprise consulting, it suffices to know a language good enough to deliver.

It is common practice to be thrown at random projects regardless of the programming project.

What is valued is the soft skills, and the ability to swim when thrown into the cold water, no matter how.

Yes it kind of sucks, however the Pandora box is long open and only an implosion of the capitalist enterprise culture would fix it.
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leptons 167 days ago
Sure, I can "swim when thrown into the cold water", but you have to be a masochist to like that kind of job. It sucks. I won't do it if I don't have to, and luckily I don't have to.
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pjmlp 166 days ago
It pays better than the alternatives and some freedom moving between technologies, which tend to be product development with an expiration date, until the company gets acquired or decides to offshore the team.

Contrary to product companies you also get to jump technologies without having an HR department sending the application into the garbage because one doesn't tick all the boxes on a specific stack.

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