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Re:Learn to Code, It's Harder Than You Think by empath75 on Friday December 04, 2015 @11:01AM (#10677030)
The way it usually works is you get a job doing non-primarily coding stuff at a company that has also has programmers, and then get shifted to a development job when people figure out you can code.
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Re:Learn to Code, It's Harder Than You Think by mildbow on Friday December 04, 2015 @11:09AM (#10677094)
Meh.

I've never seen that work for actual software development, but I guess it depends on where you work/what sort of job you do.

I've seen it work for sdets though so who knows.

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Re:Learn to Code, It's Harder Than You Think by falcolas on Friday December 04, 2015 @11:46AM (#10677340)
Err, SDET _is_ a professional software developer. It's in the title!

Working in a non-development group doesn't somehow make you not a software developer.

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Re:Learn to Code, It's Harder Than You Think by mildbow on Friday December 04, 2015 @02:10PM (#10678357)
They aren't the same job, regardless for how similiar the titles are.

My point was the skills required in architecting a solution vs testing a given specific solution differ. So, while you can more easily fall/move into a automated testing role, it's harder to do so into a core programming job. The bar for moving into the latter, rightly or not, very much higher.

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