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Re:U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs by bitbang on Friday September 01, 2017 @09:46AM (#15148253)
What skill sets a person has (provided it's related in some way to the open position) is less important than how quickly they can adapt and acquire new skill sets.
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Re:U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs by jayd16 on Friday September 01, 2017 @10:39AM (#15148657)
By this logic, no one should hire senior developers as they are just a waste of money.
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Re:U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs by stale2002 on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:20PM (#15150475)
Being a senior dev is more about high level soft skills and architecture skills, as opposed to knowing the intricacies of whatever programming language the company uses.

Coding syntax can be learned to master level in a couple weeks. "designing software" and "managing a project" skills cannot.

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Re:U.S. Employers Struggle to Match Workers with Open Jobs by dkhenry on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:33PM (#15150606)
Just to pile on, I have had people who complained that they should have been a senior dev because they knew the most about algorithms and the internals of compilers, languages, libraries, and CPU's. Those same people couldn't communicate that knowledge to others and couldn't design complex systems containing multiple independent components, but they felt since they had strong technical skills that was all they needed.
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