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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altphoto@lemmy.today 4 days agoYeah, 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.
Rooster326@programming.dev 4 days ago
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 days 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.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
What are you doing? I’m with scverse, doing single cell stuff.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Oncological genomic sequencing cross-correlated with clinical patient outcome data to improve cancer treatment targeting based on real world patient outcome data. Personally, I work on data pipeline stuff.
flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
I hope pipeline stuff is better than when I started. I (not so) accidentally played a big part in revolutionizing my field by building anndata and scanpy. Then I tried doing it again by writing sequencing stuff in Rust, but was too early / too bad, but now that’s happening too!
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 days 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.