My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work

Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by ImprobableTruth on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:02PM (#24843589)

>That is effectively how I got my last 2 jobs in software engineering

Are you saying that you had no qualifications at all before? Because that's what they're saying, just applying for any high-paying job, even if you don't have the requirements.

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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by musingsole on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:26PM (#24843728)

I mean my anecdata to serve as a realistic example of the hyperbolic concept of just wildly applying anywhere at random.

In both cases, I was switching industries (from ASIC design to IoT cloud software to data analytics). So, I arguably had some qualifications and arguably none at all.

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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by nojokes on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:39PM (#24843802)

Can you tell how fast did you acclimate and how did your employer look at this?

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