Tech Industry: “We desperately need more developers”
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#2I saw a company asking for 10 years OpenStack development experience.
The initial release of OpenStack was 7 years ago.
Cant make this shit up.
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#3It amazed me how quickly the recruiter spam started flooding my LinkedIn after passing the one year mark. I am always greatful for the company that hired me freshly out of college based on my education and aptitude, not experience.
I advise current students that the first job is hardest to get. After that you’ll have a wealth of opportunities knocking at your door.
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#4I saw a company asking for 10 years OpenStack development experience. The initial release of OpenStack was 7 years ago. Cant make this shit up.
It's up there with, we need a code ninja 10x developer at 60% of market rates.
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#5I know this is targeted more towards student but I also find similar issues if someone with some work-experience wants to switch away from a dwindling tech towards a new tech. People say, well you don't have "relevant" experience.
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#6Nobody in this Twitter thread seems to know or understand what a commons problem is. Training up new devs is good for the industry, sure. But your own company doesn't capture all of that value.
If you are trying to solve this problem by yelling at companies to be more altruistic, then, as previously stated, you don't know or understand what a commons problem is.
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#7Nobody in this Twitter thread seems to know or understand what a commons problem is. Training up new devs is good for the industry, sure. But your own company doesn't capture all of that value. If you are trying to solve this problem by yelling at companies to be more altruistic, then, as previously stated, you don't know or understand what a commons problem is.
Employees aren't fish or trees.
If you train an employee and treat them well they stay with your company longer. Your training increases the value the provide to you.
Unlike a fish, which is sold and consumed one day and needs to be replaced the next.
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#8It's not abnormal for a company to have senior-level openings and no junior openings.
My company for example is also "desperately" in need of a senior developer / architect to fill in a role.
Re: Tech Industry: “We desperately need more developers”
#9Nobody in this Twitter thread seems to know or understand what a commons problem is. Training up new devs is good for the industry, sure. But your own company doesn't capture all of that value. If you are trying to solve this problem by yelling at companies to be more altruistic, then, as previously stated, you don't know or understand what a commons problem is.
Well companies would be able to capture more of that "value", if they didn't lay off all those new devs at the first downturn in a product cycle.
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#10Tweets are news now? Really.
Anyway. I run a largeish software team and we have a mix of very experienced devs along with some newer devs who definitely have holes in their skills. We run training in certain areas with the goal of upskilling the team. Especially for security and secure coding practices which aren't taught in universities. There's also a lot of training around good engineering practices and the like. I'm pretty sure most software companies are the same.
Yes, the industry does not train people from absolute scratch like apprentice schemes do. It's very reliant on universities. But I don't see legions of unemployed students: they do get jobs and companies do take over their training to bring them from basic to advanced.