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Software Engineering Is A Meritocracy
Despite everything, our industry remains at its core purely ability based.
It makes no sense to me, as an irritable and most definitely rapidly aging software engineer in the Grand Game of Software Engineering, that anyone would ever expect me to hire someone who doesn’t fulfil the requirements of job specification.
As if, by some fluke of fortune that I’d give in and just hire someone just because, say, they repeatedly applied for ten different positions (with the same CV) and suited none of them.
Brute force, in this case, just won’t work unless you’re just a detached and faceless HR machine filling chairs to tick arbitrary boxes, most likely at “big tech” — all of which will be emptied when the layoffs come around and the share price falls by 2c.
The same goes for people who just don’t read the specification and whose suitability for a particular role is something akin to trying to write a functioning and legible program in JavaScript, running Java at anything but a leisurely pace and without going over 80 characters per line in the source repo, or just thinking that Windows is any kind of environment to develop actual software applications¹.