Meta to Layoff 10k Employees

Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by amon22 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:13PM (#35157721)

Sorry but this is nonsense. Juniors can absolutely make a huge mess in python if let to their own devices. You seem to confuse the knowledge of syntax and language features with actual experience in designing software.

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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by HervalFreire on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:03PM (#35158564)

Let me spell it out. A junior dev is 1 or 2 years of experience away from a senior dev for python.

For C++ it takes probably 4 or 5 years.

This is not nonsense. This is real.

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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by blsapologist42 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @07:03PM (#35160543)

Being a "senior dev" is a lot more than just language familiarity.

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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by HervalFreire on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @09:17PM (#35162353)

If we're just talking about the python stack arguably there's not much else on top of it. You get the extra stuff through osmosis in the same 1 - 2 years. The applications for python aren't wide ranging enough to include much else unless you're thinking about data science and ML stuff.

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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by int_19h on Thursday March 16, 2023 @11:19PM (#35192570)

I guess it depends on your definition of "senior", but I don't see why language choice should affect it this much, given that much of what makes seniors senior is not knowledge of specific tech, but experience with software engineering as a process.

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