 Had an interesting conversation yesterday with someone that reminded me how weird Corporate and Open Source development is. He asked what sort of qualifications and degrees are required to work on the rust compiler. I told him: "Well, none. You could grab a ticket and create a PR. Now, getting that PR landed means it's going to be super scrutinized." There are PhDs with dozens of AWS certs relying on code written by college drop-outs. It's a really, really weird world. 13 comments
@jrconlin @grmpyprogrammer open source maintainer and college dropout reporting for duty @ACTupper @snipe @grmpyprogrammer Truly, y'all are the 5 year old seated at the table of the Evil Overlord. http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html (Which, come to think of it, might explain why so many big companies have 'requires at least a Masters Degree' in their hiring profiles.) @jrconlin @ACTupper @grmpyprogrammer the degree I was studying was in education of the hearing impaired. I dropped out, went to work on Wall Street, later worked with tigers. We all have our weird journeys. Oh, absolutely. I've been deep in both worlds, and I frequently have to remember that there are LOTS of folk who never experience the other side. They can't fathom someone doing valuable work without dozens of qualifications, or that anyone should feel comfortable just jumping on a task and showing their code.   @jrconlin It's even worse than it seems for corporate: the background checks. No matter how good you are, or how many years of experience you got, if you ave a practically irrelevant police record then they won't hire you, not even for remote work in another country. Luckily for me I have never been arrested, but what happens with people who live under a dictatorship? Corporate work is bullshit.  |
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@jrconlin i was telling a friend who thought programming was all math that the reality is nearly all the “mathy stuff” has been done for you, so mostly it’s just farting around.