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?

  • ronakkaria01@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m gonna say only one thing. If you want to make a bank at a job then learn low level programming.

    I think OP doesn’t understand what a SWE does and compares it to WP guys.

    SWE isn’t just building a website like what WP does.

    It includes building complex web applications that can do pretty much everything at scale which is easier to maintain and has a smaller codebase.

    With WP and its increasing reliability on external plugins as a project grows it’s not always the best idea to go for.

    This is of course for businesses that have 7+ figures in income that have hundreds of thousands of users using the site everyday and the site itself offers some really complex functionality.

    Other than that WP is a really good option to start with an e-commerce store. It’s enough if business sells basic products at scale