Comment by solarmist
2 days ago
I don’t feel like it was. Every role is hyper specific nowadays.
And most refused to look at anybody deviating from their ideal background in my experience.
2 days ago
I don’t feel like it was. Every role is hyper specific nowadays.
And most refused to look at anybody deviating from their ideal background in my experience.
>"And most refused to look at anybody deviating from their ideal background in my experience."
This is often because the culture of job-hopping for better pay every 18 months has eroded the willingness to pay for training or adaptation. Why pay for someone to learn if they're just gonna leave soon; the pre-trained person is a better deal if you'll have to pay to retain anyway.
Which was caused by cost cutting measures, MBA disease, in companies to begin with.
We’re just seeing the end of the cat and mouse struggle that’s been going on since the 60s. And massively accelerated in the 80s.
It’s unfortunate for companies though because they’re the ones that will lose out in the end when all the experienced people start retiring and they have no one to hire.
It’s an untenable position to not train people, period. There is no schooling you could go through that would educated junior dev to the level of a senior dev. And it’s the same for any other role. Experience is not optional.
I think the primary stimulus which creating the “job hopping culture” was actually the hot labor market for software developers. Other fields experienced real ‘cost-cutting’, without resulting in a lot of ‘job-hopping’.
I agree that this situation is undesirable, but it seems to be stable, somewhat like the result of repeated play of the prisoner’s dilemma.
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