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Re:I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain ab... by JAlexoid on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @12:59AM (#27204750)
That's not paying your dues. Being a software engineer forced to work as a network technician (not even a network engineer) is akin to having the junior accountant just get everyone coffee.

Maybe writing tests is paying your dues, because it often feels like a thankless job. Building UIs in a JS framework... Those could be "paying your dues", or more precise getting real world development experience.

But there's a lower limit to that "paying your dues", when it comes to educated professions.

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Re:I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain ab... by tolbish on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @01:28AM (#27204909)
It also sounds like an incredibly bad idea to put a junior engineer with no network technician experience in a network technician role. Have fun when your server goes down at 2am because something is fried, somewhere!
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Re:I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain ab... by benhurmarcel on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @03:52AM (#27205768)
In mechanical engineering, it's considered good practice to make recently-hired engineers work as blue-collar operator in the shop for a while. When it's proposed it's even usually appreciated by the engineer as a rare opportunity to learn.
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Re:I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain ab... by rightbyte on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:38PM (#27214825)
Ye you need oil and saw dust on your hands to design machines properly. In a SWE analogue running the milling machine would be ... using computers? Workshop experience is harder to come by than computer dito.
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