Red Flags in Software Developer Job Descriptions

Re:Red Flags in Software Developer Job Descriptions by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday February 28, 2019 @10:13AM (#19271815)

If your goal is to make as much money as possible, then you probably have to live in that mutually predatory environment, but if your goal is to have a more stress-free existence and feel like your work is actually helping people then there are alternatives.

I have little fear of being laid off at my company because they didn't even lay anyone off during the last recession. It isn't publicly traded, and has a very flat managerial structure, so the typical 80s-guy bullshit doesn't really fly here. We don't make software and get our revenue from selling ad space, we make real things for real people and we charge real money for them.

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Re:Red Flags in Software Developer Job Descriptions by geezerjay on Friday March 01, 2019 @01:03AM (#19278306)

> but if your goal is to have a more stress-free existence and feel like your work is actually helping people then there are alternatives.

I've interviewed devs with over a decade of experience who clearly opted for a stress-free existence feeling like their work was actually helping people, and now here they are in their mid-40s looking for a job with an obsolete skillset and an obvious track record of not adapting to changes.

It's great that you lead a stress-free life in your 20s and 30s, but how do you expect to cope with the problem of being obsolete and useless and no better than a 20yo fresh out of college (and in some regards far worse) when you reach your 40s and 50s?

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Re:Red Flags in Software Developer Job Descriptions by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @02:13PM (#19313248)

The guy sitting next to me at this company is in his 60s. Stability does not preclude learning new things.

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