Dev Talent in the Age of Commoditization

Written by astepanov256 | Published 2019/11/18
Tech Story Tags: workforce | software-engineering | culture | dev-talent | art-of-computer-programming | hackernoon-top-story | donald-knuth | age-of-commoditization

TLDR Computer programming is no longer considered a form of applied art. With increasingly fast delivery cycles, the code has become disposable. Employers want cheap disposable commodity, and they want a lot of it. Only 29% of programmers see their job as meaningful, and the wast majority sees it as a waste of time. PayScale.com published a comprehensive job satisfaction survey covering well over a hundred different industries. The average number of people who are satisfied with their job is below bartenders and slightly above dishwashers.via the TL;DR App

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Written by astepanov256 | Software Engineer, Writer, Recovering Perfectionist
Published by HackerNoon on 2019/11/18