I can't help but feel that something has gone dreadfully wrong in society in that we've decided to start incentivizing people with no talent or interest to participate in the technology space.
This really hits the nail on the head.
I personally don’t care that we incentivize people with no interest to work in tech. People should have free agency to do (or not do) whatever they want in life, regardless of skill. This isn’t the Soviet Union.
The part that is frustrating is when the loosely-held opinion of someone with 6 months of STEM training in their life is considered equivalent to the knowledge of someone with years of engineering schooling and real engineering experience. This happens (e.g.) when the bootcamp-grad suggests a way to reduce delivery time by 25%, at the cost of increasing technical debt by an order of magnitude, or at the cost of ruining developer experience in a code base forever.
And they don’t even understand the second part well enough to articulate it, leaving the people with actual experience to quantify how much tech debt is created by their solution. Anyone who actually read a book on the subject would immediately know why the suggestion is a bad idea.
I’ve been on both sides of the table here. When I first started out in programming, I got a job after reading the Django docs once and not having built anything substantial. I lasted a whole year.
Now, I program almost every day in an esoteric web framework that I have read 10+ books about. I am currently unemployed and can’t find a job.
I personally don’t care that we incentivize people with no interest to work in tech. People should have free agency to do (or not do) whatever they want in life, regardless of skill. This isn’t the Soviet Union.
The part that is frustrating is when the loosely-held opinion of someone with 6 months of STEM training in their life is considered equivalent to the knowledge of someone with years of engineering schooling and real engineering experience. This happens (e.g.) when the bootcamp-grad suggests a way to reduce delivery time by 25%, at the cost of increasing technical debt by an order of magnitude, or at the cost of ruining developer experience in a code base forever.
And they don’t even understand the second part well enough to articulate it, leaving the people with actual experience to quantify how much tech debt is created by their solution. Anyone who actually read a book on the subject would immediately know why the suggestion is a bad idea.