I’magine trying to light your cigarette, and you get a popup ad
That was developer recruiting then.
Developer recruiting now: “$14/hr 3 month contract at Megacorp Inc., pErMaNeNt EmPlOyMeNt PoSsIBle (butwillneverhappen)! You must be willing to uproot your family and move to Bemidji, Minnesota before you will be considered. Candidates must have PhD or equivalent in computer science, Bachelors or greater in applied mathematics, and at least 10 years senior development experience in [buzzwordy web framework that has only existed for 16 months]. Apply with full résumé which we will not read, and as part of your standard interview screening process we’ll try to trick you into writing functional code for the project we have in mind. Don’t bother calling us, we’ll call you.”
You’ll find our CEO bitching on Linkedin or Twitter that “no one wants to work anymore.”
Is this just an American thing? I got a master’s in CSE and got a job months before graduation. They’re desperate for developers here.
I’m an American and I haven’t really had this problem. My career trajectory is weird in that I did systems and networks (with lots of automation because I’m lazy), then SRE, and now development.
I get headhunters calling me weekly. I was able to take a low stress medium pay job for a few years to recharge and moved right back into a faster paced good paying job within weeks of deciding I was ready for it. I don’t know what jobs these folks are applying for but I very rarely see those “10 years experience in 2 year old language” jobs these days. A few years back they were all over the place, though.
I have a dozen colleagues without formal CS education. Many without a degree at all. And as a hiring manager myself for software engineers, I don’t look much at education at all
A lot of places around here do a bootcamp thing and hire students out of high-school that do well since they say a lot of what they need isn’t taught in college or university exactly they teach on the job
I remember talking to an older fella about his experience becoming a programmer back in the 60s (I think). He told me that he decided it was time to start a career so he went to a nearby IBM office and asked for a job. They gave him an aptitude test and then hired him the same day. He wrote code for their mainframes until he retired.
“Boy, when I was your age I just walked into the nearest IBM office and asked for a job, and that’s how I’m a billionaire today. Don’t know why kids nowadays are so lazy & complaining about how hard life is.”
Lol he was nothing more than middle class. He also was telling the story from the perspective of “I understand how easy it was for me”. He was a really cool guy.
Sounds pretty good if you ask me.
Indeed. Like many career stories from back then it sounds kinda lovely.
This was a plot device in Superman 2
