How Employers Are Exploiting Programmer Passion
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Companies are using our passion against us in order to make ever larger profits and money out of our efforts. That means employers are looking for candidates who will go the extra mile and try a little harder to do well. This might mean they are willing to work evenings and weekends or try to take on stressful work that stretches them.
“This might mean that the hiring process is designed to find those who are a little naive or it might mean that the process ‘accidentally’ identifies those candidates.
Either way, it is the company which benefits rather than the candidates.”
This article is about what is happening in the industry and what software developers can do about it.
The Tools At Work Against Software Developers
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Some employers make passion a requirement in their job specification. When you see that it’s a clear red flag indicating long hours and a toxic environment. Worse, if this is written as a requirement for a job you take it’s incredibly difficult to justify not…
