I’ve been a SWE for more than 8 years now. It was so easy getting jobs 2-3 years ago. Now it’s like a never-ending battle if you’re trying to land a job in this market right now. Especially with AI on the rise, many companies and businesses are skeptical to hire software engineer who are not unicorns (many years in FAANG companies).
I’ve worked in corporate, startup environments, and i’ve failed now twice trying to make my own business.
In theory, if I was a unicorn in my craft (SWE) I should be able to create an application that gets alot of traffic and revenue. My point is, maybe it’s not the app/idea/software itself. It’s just who you know and how you can sell.
So SWE’s are pointless now pretty much? Go use wordpress with an experienced business guy and you already closer to being successful than a unicorn SWE.
Thoughts?
The very fact that OP mentioned WordPress being part of his stack completely destroyed his credibility for me.
I mean, my gf is a primary school teacher and I think wp is part of her stack.
There is no oversaturarion. There is work for much more than just unicorns.
But yes, incompetant people pretending to be SWE because they know WordPress, in the actual conjoncture, will have a harder time finding work.
Source: I am a SWE and WordPress is not part of my stack, geez.
Not seeing where he said Wordpress was “part of his stack”. Seems like he was saying he feels more advanced skills aren’t as desired/necessary when people are making bank off Wordpress sites.
Right? People are really bad at text interpretation when they want to bash someone for likes.