Late to the party, but my big one of late.. Job Titles.
- Job titles in tech are out of control. Searching for a job requires me to use like 3-7 searches because everyone is making up titles as they go, and its just insane. We call ourselves engineers, and its time we take another page from the book of engineering, for job titles. Engineer titles are very pointed, and thus job function limited by their title. Example: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer [I], this would be a generalist cloud role, at the jr/entry level, eventual knowledge of all clouds and their things as you reach [III] status (or [V], depending on company size). Their only function is infrastructure for cloud services. Today, such a title would also require devops knowledge, CI/CD, various services for monitoring, logging, kubernetes, etc. These should obviously be jobs for multiple people but we just keep letting things get stacked on to a single title. Ive even seen ridiculous titles that are very obviously 3 jobs in one, especially when you look at the responsibilities/qualifications of it. Really need to get a grasp on this. likely nothing will get fixed without entire unionization of people in tech, unfortunately.
- React, Next, etc, are steaming piles of code. I was going to build a react frontend for a project that was size constrained. The out of the box build, adding only react and some bare minimum packages resulted in well over 4mb of js, AND I DIDNT EVEN HAVE A WORKING ANYTHING YET. Utterly disgusting. Add to that that it seems that any dev who does front/backend work worships their framework of choice to the point of using it in places it has absolutely no reason to be. Ive seen these developers trying to write shell scripts in js/ts, using react. The amount things ive seen written in js that had no right to be, is way to high.