IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

Noodleface

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TJT said:
So I have been trying to get a backfill for the streetshitter I got to quit. That guy was retarded and didn't deserve the job sure, but even in supposedly tech hub Austin I cannot find any decent candidates to backfill him.

I've been looking since May and all of the applicants I get for a Senior engineering position claim they are coming from or are currently in a senior role. But it is as clear as day that that their experience is all at the junior level. All they can speak to is doing updates, maintenance tasks, and creating features with lots of guidance. Not one of them has done something with a great deal of autonomy, Nor have they done any application architecture. They also lack familiarity with the features of cloud platforms and what to use on them and why. Its weird.

I have always known there is a lot of title inflation going on. I have never hunted for titles. But from what I gather right now the trend is work some place for 3-4 years then demand a senior engineer title despite not having the experience for the role. Then apply to other senior positions. Probably getting a title upgrade in lieu of getting a large raise.

This is for a $200k engineering job and I cannot find anyone here in Austin. I am getting thousands more streetshitters applying and begging for h1b though. Which I just ignore.
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I can't even find qualified internal candidates for my team.
 
TJT

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So if we had all of these big tech layoffs and such, where are the engineers that got laid off then? That would be my question.
 
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TJT said:
So if we had all of these big tech layoffs and such, where are the engineers that got laid off then? That would be my question.
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We have this same issue trying to hire lawyers. Everyone we interview is retarded. And there’s no H1B’s or foreigners involved here, these are regular Americans.
 
Siliconemelons

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200k, can I do it with chatGTP guiding me?

Split the money, hire two bros out of college and train them in house, give them a 2 year contract. End of year 1 training tell them that only 1 of them is getting renewed at the end and getting the others salary. Then either do it, or double both their salary of them at the end and have 2 really good people that are diehards and trained for what you want.

If you have gone this long without the position what’s the harm in hiring two build up employees then.

But HR women wont let you do stuff like this anymore.
 
Deathwing

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My boss will not curtail Claude's verboseness. I love getting MRs where the description dwarfs the diff. Or the diff itself packed with grey text with green background.

I think I'm going to stop reading MR descriptions and code comments unless I absolutely need to. So, basically the way it was before. I think the real frustration is that most of the team was quite upfront with the problem and just ignored us.
 
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Deathwing said:
My boss will not curtail Claude's verboseness. I love getting MRs where the description dwarfs the diff. Or the diff itself packed with grey text with green background.

I think I'm going to stop reading MR descriptions and code comments unless I absolutely need to. So, basically the way it was before. I think the real frustration is that most of the team was quite upfront with the problem and just ignored us.
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Just have claude make an alternate front end that summarizes everything.
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Kharzette

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TJT said:
So I have been trying to get a backfill for the streetshitter I got to quit. That guy was retarded and didn't deserve the job sure, but even in supposedly tech hub Austin I cannot find any decent candidates to backfill him.

I've been looking since May and all of the applicants I get for a Senior engineering position claim they are coming from or are currently in a senior role. But it is as clear as day that that their experience is all at the junior level. All they can speak to is doing updates, maintenance tasks, and creating features with lots of guidance. Not one of them has done something with a great deal of autonomy, Nor have they done any application architecture. They also lack familiarity with the features of cloud platforms and what to use on them and why. Its weird.

I have always known there is a lot of title inflation going on. I have never hunted for titles. But from what I gather right now the trend is work some place for 3-4 years then demand a senior engineer title despite not having the experience for the role. Then apply to other senior positions. Probably getting a title upgrade in lieu of getting a large raise.

This is for a $200k engineering job and I cannot find anyone here in Austin. I am getting thousands more streetshitters applying and begging for h1b though. Which I just ignore.
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I think in games at least alot of real engineers fell out of the workforce, replaced by dei. The last time I looked for work it was just crickets. Maybe I should have dyed my hair pink or something.

Anyway since, I've been doing my own thing and taking care of my parents. I keep making stuff, but my skills have decayed alot if I'm honest.

The friends I have in IT-ish work are mostly consulting. They are parachuted in to fix the gigantic messes companies keep making by going cheap with pajeets.
 
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