“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”

Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by IanSanders on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:07AM (#25300755)

> Computers are still machines, and we still tell them what to do by programming them. It is still possible to stay out of what you describe above, it is still possible to work on low-level code, on real products, on things that matter to people and companies.

Yes it is possible, but in practice one will (sometimes have to) spend most of the time with devices/technologies that make one die inside a little.

Part of the problem is that "doing the right thing" is often not competitively viable.

This may not be specific to IT only, either.

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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by sharker8 on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:26AM (#25302495)

Some of the most inspirational stories in tech are along the lines of "I had this terrible job where we had to use tech X so I wrote adapter Y in more cool tech Z and automated the whole thing and took long lunches."

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