Re:Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts
by sleepybrett on Sunday March 26, 2023 @08:37PM
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I want to be clear, i've hired several engineers who don't know how computers actually work. It's fine, there are certain optimization tasks I would probably assign to someone else maybe to pair with the less educated engineer, but other than that the code they are working on is so absurdly abstracted from the metal it really doesn't matter that much.
For some, it's the boot sequence of a PC. For others, it's the Liskov Substitution Principle. For others, it might precise definitions of all the database transaction or normalization levels.
That is - pieces of genuinely useful knowledge, to be sure. Stuff we probably should have been exposed to at least once. But also stuff that, once we've gotten the basic point - is easy to slip out of our muscle memory over the years.
Especially as we end up doing, you know, real work for real people. And we start to develop genuine technical horse sense that goes beyond the ability to memorize (and retain for years and years) zillions of verbal definitions for things.