Yes, people make tons of career decisions based on money, but as an educational institution, “make £X” rather than the merits of the subject matter sucks.
It’s hard to find passionate and intelligent engineers already, and the dilution of the market has made interviewing harder as well.
Combined with the diversity initiatives, it has really handicapped hiring at my previous company.
I am a front end developer, and with the browser becoming more and more powerful over the years (JS standardization, emscripten, wasm, webgpu), I'm curious to look at some of the powerful tools that people are building in the browser.I tried searching on Github (language: js) and Google, but the vast majority of the results are for node.js projects - I am having a hard time filtering out the...
Over the past few years, there has been a huge push for hitting diverse hiring (African American / Latin / LGBQT / Female) targets at large tech companies, especially in engineering. I've noticed this phenomenon first-hand in Silicon Valley.I do believe that these efforts mean well, and come from a good place. Diversity of ideas is very important for building successful products for a diverse...