Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
by gombosg on Sunday June 06, 2021 @09:40AM
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Also, the number of developers is increasing exponentially over time. There are maybe a hundred thousand people out there who have >25 years of dev experience, and millions who have <5.
E.g. see [1] - 16 times more engineers filling the SO survey with <5 years of experience compared to >25.
The job market has to roughly follow this demographic trend, otherwise companies would fall behind competitors.
[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#developer-pro...
Re:Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
by BossingAround on Sunday June 06, 2021 @07:39AM
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What are some of the jobs that require mastery in your mind? I suspect we'll diverge in that opinion, hence our different conclusions.
Not sure about this though:
> I would say that the number of jobs that require the mastery of the craft is not large.
Perhaps the number of jobs that require mastery is less well known? i.e. Not advertised as often / not vacant as often.
I suppose I'm splitting hairs here in one's definition of "not large", by in my circles (~25 years of dev working experience) there are quite a lot of "jobs" requiring mastery, but they certainly do become available less often (or rather, they're usually quietly filled without much public notice).