Software Development and Programming Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[wastedmermaid]

Do you guys know people in the field who feels this way?

Eh idk about this. Anyone can learn to code. And by learn to code I mean create some forloops ,make a simple website,do some simple problems or a to-do list. But to preform at a real professional level imo requires a real dedication and love for coding. Having to constantly learn new frameworks/languages as company's need them, dealing with others peoples code, having to sit and code through complicated businesses problems, dealing with coworkers etc requires way more than just knowing code, you gotta have a real passion and desire for this that the majority of people probably won’t have. I’ve seen it happen with a lot of the people I went through my coding program with.

 

[null]

What's a bog?



Fair enough. I was speaking w.r.t. to the U.S.

Oops. In that context "bog standard" just means "run of the mill" stuff .

"bog" standalone slang means "toilet" among other things .

Don't ask me why and how though .

Ya get me blud. UK innit.

 

[TrebleMan]

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Do you guys know people in the field who feels this way?

I think it sounds selfish tbh. There are plenty of jobs out there. The more people in tech, means more progress and more opportunities to learn new material. We’re seeing software jobs paying $300k-$500k+ these weren’t rates from even a few years ago and I’m talking only about front end.

If anything, because there are so many people, that’s what makes the field/industry on the blazing edge: there’s only one of you and plenty of people finding and creating new shyt.

The more shyt gets made and pushed forward, the more jobs out there. If anything, if you want job security you want more people in the field. Right now there’s more Javascript in the world to keep every single coder working for a lifetime for example.

 

[DJSmooth]

When you try in AWS what happens? Is it like a VM you have out there or does AWS have some sort of Docker specific deployment tool? I don't use AWS so I don't know what they have for this sort of thing.

I eventually got what I was working on up and going in the cloud.

Aws has user roles you can assign docker instances in the console that automatically assigns credentials. And the credentials that were left out I just passed when I made a docker build through environment variables.

 

[buzzkill]

can someone do me a solid and check out my portfolio and give me some critiques. I will dm you the link if you can

 

[DJSmooth]

can someone do me a solid and check out my portfolio and give me some critiques. I will dm you the link if you can

DM me I'll check it out.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

How I get stuck with 4 of 5 last minute user stories ? This is what doing too good of a job gets you :franchit:

 

[horizon]

A recruiter from Amazon reached out to me

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

A recruiter from Amazon reached out to me

How much money we bout to be making :jbhmmdup:?

 

[horizon]

How much money we bout to be making :jbhmmdup:?

What's the name of this forum?

 

[F K]

How I get stuck with 4 of 5 last minute user stories ? This is what doing too good of a job gets you :franchit:

been there breh. At least they didn't do it to you on friday

 

[F K]

How much money we bout to be making :jbhmmdup:?

breh you gotta share all these corporate smilies

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

breh you gotta share all these corporate smilies

:jbhmmdup: :franchit: are the only two I have. :dahelluation: :moneycall: :mjmoneycall: get some usage.

 

[Spin]

Any developers working at Facebook, Google, etc type companies? My question is how useful in the real world is knowledge of algorithms and whatever else these companies use to interview candidates?

In other words, is it worth the time to get good at that stuff when a person can make just as much of not more in a dev ops or app security role?

 

[F K]

Any developers working at Facebook, Google, etc type companies? My question is how useful in the real world is knowledge of algorithms and whatever else these companies use to interview candidates?

In other words, is it worth the time to get good at that stuff when a person can make just as much of not more in a dev ops or app security role?

I don't know about app security but dev ops is seen as more stressful and a pita than regular software. some places even put you on pager duty and dev ops in general is a poorly defined mish mash of server administration and software dev.

I personally made the switch because software eng was fukking up my mental health. I was always second guessing if my code was any good, if my code was well organized, if my code was efficient , if I was using the right data structures and I felt like a hamster on a treadmill, with a never ending stream of new features and requests. Devops at least you know that if everything is working, you've done your job right.

As for the rest of your question I can't answer it. I've never been an elite programmer just a CRUD and forms over data guy.

Luckily for us even the average programmers can make a good living.