Re:Short fat engineers are undervalued
by Consultant32452 on Saturday February 13, 2021 @08:44AM
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My experience is that opposite. I'm a generalist and every company I've worked for is looking for generalists. If you're doing boring business work, which most of us are, you don't need to know every crevice of any technology. The majority of software development is not moving the needle on crypto or search algorithms, it's crud business apps and reporting.
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Re:Short fat engineers are undervalued
by lowercased on Saturday February 13, 2021 @11:21AM
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> it's crud business apps and reporting.
And yet... as 'boring' as those things are, I constantly see basic errors crop up all the time because people aren't even moderately versed in the technologies.
For example, you don't need to "know every crevice of a technology", but if you're doing LOB reports for business systems, I would reasonably expect you to understand what indexes are, or what joins are and how to use them, in your SQL engine of choice,