oldopsguy

The author makes a lot of great points here but I took issue with this sentence:

All jobs that currently require a degree, should instead require a knowledge test. The employer should not care how the knowledge was obtained, just that the applicant has the knowledge.

I would argue that the degree does provide some value beyond what can be easily tested in an interview setting. I'm not sure if it is the only way but the type of person who completes a degree is the type of person who is able to sit down and start a difficult task and complete it. Often these tasks are not directly related to what the student is passionate about, and sometimes not even necessary without taking into consideration the bigger picture of a multi-year program. In my experience dealing with the drudgery of the tedious day-to-day of most white-collar jobs, this college education degree provides a coarse litmus test for the type of person who will thrive in this environment. A person who will do things well and thorough for their own sake and deal with the bullshit.

I can definitely see how preparing in such a public way would raise flags at the lower recruiter level.

pretty funny is that i use nytimes for exactly the same reason, wonder how many others are using it this way :)

Well said and as someone commented earlier about "building a table" I think there is some sense of accomplishment and utility you can get from that vs something in tech.

I think comparing is inevitable.. going through a lot of this now personally and sometimes i wonder how much a factor is the size of the pond you swim in.

Yeah I saw this as well and actually scrolled to the top of the page to check what year it was written :P

Im old too :) thanks for the feedback i think the emojis in the submissions are probably a bit much.

Yeah honestly i find the experience of going to glassdoor and entering or retrieving info actively hostile to the end user as far as ui and interface is concerned.

Nothing noteworthy, aws lambda and api gateway with dynamodb to handle the submissions. Cloudfront/s3 for the static content. The only tooling i used was kappa which is a very lightweight deployment wrapper for lambda.

Wasnt intending to use them as that but rather as reactions.

This is my first sideproject using a serverless architecture, would love to hear any feedback you might have. Thanks!

Another nice project that helps to ease lambda workflows is https://github.com/garnaat/kappa