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Maybe not the right place, maybe better for Sunday, but I'm not in a great mood. What is up with senior software engineering hiring? All the job postings seem to be premised on the idea that you don't learn any transferable skills in your career, only domain-specific ones. If you want a senior position doing X, you'd better have been doing X for multiple years already. I get that makes sense for principal-level jobs where the whole point is to hire a world expert on X, but a senior still has to ramp up as part of a team anyway. Surely this state of affairs is really suboptimal, given (I hear) how hard it is to find good people. Where are the companies hiring smart senior SWEs who have been doing X to do Y and just figuring on an extra bit of ramp-up?
Lol, I wish it was only like this for.. Seniors! At Least it makes sense there.
All the junior jobs around me are asking for AWS,K8s,A thousand disjointed frameworks that no sane person should ever use in unison blah blah blah
I thank God I was born with an IQ above 130, otherwise this shit seems impenetrable/unsustainable at the pace its going for even above average joes.
While HR handles recruitment, it seems to me from the Reddit CScareers sub that job requirements are often written by programmers and programmers are extremely guarded about their jobs; they don’t want a 10x superstar coming in and taking their jerbs or making the comfortable 10-hour-a-week arrangement look obvious to their superiors. Hiring a truly exceptional natural talent is like being hot and having a 10/10 join your friend group, you may be fine but everyone now looks worse by comparison. Best to hire someone upper-mid tier.
There's not that many superstar programmers, and I'd probably pay money myself for the chance to work with one, if they were the mentoring type.
It seems to me though that a lot of programmers have established their little niche where they fulfill their job requirements in well below their allotted 40 hours a week. Some guy coming along and working even close to that much who is (even similarly) capable is obviously going to stand out to management, questions are going to be raised. I don’t think this is unique to the job of course, sales people often say the same thing.
They can ask all the questions they want, what are they going to do, fire me? I'll have another job by the end of the week. A guy like that is probably less then 1 in a 100 or even a 1000, and most of them never bother applying at an average company, so if they happen upon one, their only workable strategy is to have the 10x guy literally replace 10 people. Even that can backfire if he gets bored of the place and quits. It's either that or do what I recommended earlier, and have the 10x help to lift the rest up.
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