Comment on 'It's Literally the Gulag': Furious Meta Employees Speak Out on 'Soul-Crushing' AI Jobs

• voidsignal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  After losing hours interviewing some of them back in the days and realizing they were not software engineers, but facebook engineers, completly lost with anything else. It’s even worse with ex Google employees.

  Some of them are probably very capable, but as for those, well, they pay the price of their past decisions. Been like that for at least 10y by now.

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, some engineers who work for very large companies basically become type cast. Can’t do anything other than pull this lever, watch this knob and mark this on excel. It doesn’t matter if they graduated from Netflix academy or have a highschool degree or got trained at big co, those skills are not engineering.

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Honestly, I’m glad I didn’t get sucked into the big tech vortex a decade or so ago. Much happier working in biotech these days.

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      • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What are you doing? I’m with scverse, doing single cell stuff.

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      • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I agree, I left software dev 10 years ago. The previous 3 decades were a golden age - we went from working with wild-west code and flat files to modular programming and databases, then object-oriented programming, then the web came along and brought another wild-west period, then came millions of packages and frameworks du jour. When I left a giant wave of all that was just curling overhead but hadn’t crashed down yet. Now if you don’t use 47 libraries to make a web page with a button on it you’re not a software engineer lol.

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So basically it’s why agism exists in Tech except it’s accelerated to be 25 year olds instead of 65 years olds…?

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  • TheGoldenV@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Interesting and seems about right. I’m kinda surprised that the skills don’t transfer, but the culture sure would. I wouldn’t wand FB or G culture in my office. Eww

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