Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says
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Re: Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says
#2So when do I get to go to a launch party held on an aircraft carrier?
Re: Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says
#3This is cause for euphoria, yes, but also a moment to reflect on the lessons of the past. Let us forge our path forward with sobriety and humility this time, and embrace a more disciplined and sustainable future.
Re: Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says
#4So when do I get to go to a launch party held on an aircraft carrier?
http://www.uss-hornet.org/groups/corporate/
Just keep waiting for someone to book it...
Re: Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says
#5This is cause for euphoria, yes, but also a moment to reflect on the lessons of the past. Let us forge our path forward with sobriety and humility this time, and embrace a more disciplined and sustainable future.
Or maybe we should let it blow up, so that tech jobs will go back to non-SV locations :D
Re: Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says
#6So when do I get to go to a launch party held on an aircraft carrier?
Hurricane Electric hosted a customer appreciation party on the USS Hornet a year or so back.
Re: Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says
#7It's a great time to be a software developer.
However, this can't last forever. For those of you that have also experienced the low times in this industry. What do you recommend in order to be ready for a potential big change?
By a big change, I mean when the moment comes where developers are not so highly demanded, so well paid, so nicely appreciated.
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#8There's a tech boom going on in the bay area, and it seems like I'm constantly reading comments here on HN about how companies are having to scramble to find enough people with programming skill to fill the jobs being created. I hope this is true, and I have a related question.
Let's say you have a 22-year-old living in the bay with no post-high school education and no programming experience. How far does this boom go? If he's smart, can he get a job out of this if he decides, today, to self-study as hard as he can and see if he has an aptitude for this kind of thing? Are there 'low-level' jobs being created for the non-rockstars, too?
Argh, it's really hard to keep this impersonal. Obviously this is me, and I want really badly to be told I have a shot. I genuinely have no idea whether this is a pipe dream. Thanks to anyone who responds--a job counselor I asked was "encouraging", but somehow I feel like a semi-anonymous HN comment would be worth more....
Re: Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says
#9There's a tech boom going on in the bay area, and it seems like I'm constantly reading comments here on HN about how companies are having to scramble to find enough people with programming skill to fill the jobs being created. I hope this is true, and I have a related question. Let's say you have a 22-year-old living in the bay with no post-high school education and no programming experience. How far does this boom g…
I think you certainly have a solid shot at being successful at this. Heck, that's true even in a down market and/or in places other than SV, but I also think you're lack of interest in the field up until now might suggest that you'll end up hating it.
Build something and launch it in public (by which I mean a product). You'll prove both an aptitude and a willingness to see something to the end, which to many people will be as good as a degree, and you'll find out if you love this field or hate it.
If you start, make sure you finish. Get someone to hold you accountable to this if necessary.
Re: Silicon Valley job growth has reached dot-com boom levels, report says
#10There's a tech boom going on in the bay area, and it seems like I'm constantly reading comments here on HN about how companies are having to scramble to find enough people with programming skill to fill the jobs being created. I hope this is true, and I have a related question. Let's say you have a 22-year-old living in the bay with no post-high school education and no programming experience. How far does this boom g…
Your best bet for getting companies to be willing to take a risk on you, if you have no relevant education or work experience yet, is to start working on side projects(that you can share on places like GitHub), contributing to open source, maybe work on a phone app or two and release them (depending on where your interests lie exactly in the software world). Perhaps gather these into a slick, well designed, simple web site, basically saying what you said above. Anything tangible that will make people more excited about giving you a shot.
They likely won't be willing to just take your word that you were a proficient self-study, but if your work is good, some people will be willing to look beyond just the education. While you are trying to teach yourself, take a bit of time to get a basic familiarity with Computer Science concepts (data structures, algorithms, common design patterns, and OO concepts if applicable, etc). These can often seem unnecessary and overly complicated to a self taught developer (speaking from experience), but they can really help with writing nicer, cleaner, more efficient code in the long run.
One thing that helped move me in the right direction for my career was starting a couple of web sites for ideas I had for various niche communities (I had dreams of grandeur and selling my websites for millions, ha). They both failed miserably, and never really generated a sustainable user base. However, I learned a ton in the process about web technologies from front end to the database side of things, and having that on my resume really helped in start-up interviews, as it was a mentality that people in those circles could relate to.