Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice?
by tomc1985 on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:27PM
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On the market being flooded, I think it varies greatly depending on where you are and whom you are with. With my current job I am part of a competent team of smart people but on my last job it seems that IQ was in short supply, for candidates, vendors, and even our "partners".
Even though the last job ended months ago, I'm still trying to unconvince myself that everyone in this world is stupid and incompetent, because that was what it felt like.
Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice?
by catwind7 on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @07:12PM
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Yeah totally. I have a friend who mostly works with the IT in big banks and pretty recently he told me he had to explain what "Git" was to a more senior eng. That was shocking to me but then again maybe I'm too steeped in webdev.
Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice?
by profalseidol on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:09AM
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This company I'm working in right now has recently migrated from CVS to Git. Still stuck in XML hell though. And nobody understand the ginormous Ant build script.
Re:Ask HN: Is web development still a viable career choice?
by beefalo on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @02:56PM
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The market being flooded with poor talent may even make it worse than it being flooded with good talent. Companies now need to invest a lot more time filtering out the people who can't code to hire junior candidates. Instead companies may just decide they will invest that money in the salaries for mid-level and senior engineers instead of time spent hiring juniors.
"The market is flooded with people who cannot code, therefore it's easy to find a job as a junior engineer"
The market could in fact be flooded with people who cannot code (I don't know for sure). Assuming that's true, that doesn't necessarily mean it's easy to get a job as a junior dev (speaking from someone on the interviewing side).