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?

  • evermore88@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I don’t think what you said make sense…

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    why is a SWE craft is making an application that gets a lot of traffic and revenue ?

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    the whole point of SWE is to make custom software dictate by business

    the business person is the one with the idea that attracts revenue and traffic

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    if SWE field is over saturated then you should be able to hire any decent engineer at cheap price ? according to your assertion of over supply of SWE this would mean prices for SWE would crater.

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    your last statement makes me really question your 8 year of exp in various fields as you stated. Apparently everything can be build in word press and plugs in now a day ? why do we need anyone to write custom code, every single idea is can be made by some combination of word press and plug ins right ? ( seriously ? )

    • Illustrious-Age-1275@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      For a lot of things, sure! But one day a vendor or client needs you to fork their project and create custom features in an iframe. Without some swes already in house, it would take some time and a lot of money to ramp new people up. We got some gnarly code out there, my friend.

    • Liizam@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I mean idk why I would hire a software engineer for basic websites. Maybe op needs to apply to bizz positions instead

    • mtlredditor@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      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.

      • Dick_Lazer@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        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.

        • balder1993@alien.topBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Right? People are really bad at text interpretation when they want to bash someone for likes.