Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion

Re:Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion by vonmoltke on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:00PM (#23339629)

Alternately, the software industry could go the way of the electrical and mechanical engineering industries and just not hire people unless they already possess relevant domain knowledge. It was a bit of a shock to me when I transitioned from EE that I could get hired in this industry with little to no domain knowledge on what I was being hired to do.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion by exdsq on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:20PM (#23340535)

I do wonder if this will happen. I reckon there will be some sort of catastrophic programming error which brings in a level of certification akin to other engineering disciplines. I've seen jobs advertised nearby for a nuclear defence company that have the same requirements as a web dev agency.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion by ununoctium87 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @06:57PM (#23344012)

So, kind of like a software bug that causes 1 or 2 planes to crash, killing all on-board?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion by philjohn on Thursday May 28, 2020 @07:27PM (#23344348)

Or killed a bunch of people undergoing radiotherapy, or exploded an Arianne rocket, or required years of remiedial work before 1st of Jan 2000 ... the list goes on and on.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion by exdsq on Friday May 29, 2020 @07:44AM (#23348796)

I was thinking something more extreme, although I wonder if that software bug had caused a plane or two to crash into a US city would there have been more of a response.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion by tpmx on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:31PM (#23340681)

You mean like a company on this list?

https://www.dontbankonthebomb.com/nuclear-weapon-producers/

(It seems to be an activist site, but it's what shows up when you search for producers of of nuclear weapons.)

Most of these companies are huge. They may be looking for someone to maintain their canteens' web site. Or something else not very exciting.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion by heavenlyblue on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:28PM (#23340636)

The only question is whether you will be hired on those requirements alone.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Remote work has its perks, until you want a promotion by __s on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:30PM (#23340020)

Learning is a prerequisite, jobs pivot, things change

Maybe in another hundred years things'll settle down

[ Parent | on HN ]