Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoIt’s easier than you’d think. The applicant pool doesn’t tend to be the best and brightest.
Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoIt’s easier than you’d think. The applicant pool doesn’t tend to be the best and brightest.
nagaram@startrek.website 1 month ago
One of the guys I went to college with is an amazing programming and had such a great understanding of C that hes why i got as far into CS as i did, couldn’t get a job after grad because 1) Covid and more importantly 2) he’s insufferable.
He got a job making $100k a year for I wanna say Lockheed because he quote “Wrote good looking code”. That’s all they needed because Tue DoD already told them that the project he was hired for was not going to be adopted, but they were still contracted for minimum 2 more years of development and Lockheed would be in breach of contract if they weren’t making progress even though it was already Dead.
The Military industrial complex is JUST a grift to put tax dollars in private hands.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
There’s a monumental amount of waste in there. I’ve seen a department order a truckload of equipment from compUSA, a reputable vendor, and it shows up with open brown cardboard boxes of used equipment. Staff SGT rubber-stamped it. Somebody made bank. Shit like that was ALWAYS going down.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
$100k per year writing code at a defence contractor isn’t very much.