Comments by "Luther T.S." (@LutherDePapier) on "This can't be good..." video.

  1. Getting a job in tech nowadays is the equivalent of a 30-year-old+ woman trying to get married.
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  2. "...and you're actually part of communities of people who write code." That has literally become a requirement for employment, and I'm not sure that it should be for developers just to be able to eat from the skills they've acquired. And the worst part is, for example any frontend developer can go on the web and see the amount of work that needs to be done. Amazon does not have a dark mode. There's bugs in UI everywhere that every user encounters every single day that they go on the Internet, some even requiring to reload pages. You can't go on the website on an employer without noticing some bad UI or some poor optimization, which kinda makes you scratch your head as to why they didn't even let you reach the interview.
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  3. So basically in order to get started in tech nowadays you need to know someone.
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  4.  @JanVerny  And you're 100 % correct. Amazon has all the means in the world to make and maintain a dark mode, but they probably decided that all the investments that are going to be required to make the same user stories they've crafted so well in dark mode (what about pictures, for example) are currently not cost-effective. So the true issue here is that all of the work we see that needs to be done and that could be handled easily by a well-led team of junior engineers, which could kickstart their careers and lead them to become valuable seniors down the line, is just not worth the expense for individual companies in the short term. It could and would be worth it in the long term in terms of nurturing new senior developers, but what guarantee do individual companies have that these seniors would stay and that a company would not have created a senior that would later defect to a competitor? None. This is fucked up. And it just come back down to what Theo alluded to. If you're a junior dev who wants a job, you need to be friends with the person that will give you that job. That has become your best selling point right now.
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  5.  @ItsUhMeIbraheem  Why thank you. 🫂
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  6. The future of what can be done with software is bright. The future of software dev employment though... no. Employees consider they have no incentives to nurture junior developers, which in turn will bite them long term when senior developers will start retiring.
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