My take on how a decade (or more) of using cloud services for everything has seemingly deskilled the workforce.
Just recently I found myself interviewing senior security engineers just to realize that in many cases they had absolutely no idea about how the stuff they supposedly worked with, actually worked.
This all made me wonder, is it possible that over-reliance on cloud services for everything has massively deskilled the engineering workforce? And if it is so, who is going to be the European clouds, so necessary for EU’s digital sovereignty?
I did not copy-paste the post in here because of the different writing style, but I get no benefit whatsoever from website visits.
The main factor, IMO, is that everyone wants good engineers but good engineers don’t change jobs that often.
Meaning most of the candidates you interview will suck in one way or another.
And everyone calls themselves “senior” nowadays.
Everyone calls themselves senior because that’s the only type of position recruiters look for.
I’m a mid level dev, but I’m encouraged by recruiters to apply for senior positions because their clients are actually looking for a range of levels
Exactly. We don’t hire “junior” positions, because all the midlevels are juniors, all seniors are mid-level, and seniors don’t apply. I’m a senior and a recruiter found me, I didn’t apply (at least not to this company).