My take on how a decade (or more) of using cloud services for everything has seemingly deskilled the workforce.

Just recently I found myself interviewing senior security engineers just to realize that in many cases they had absolutely no idea about how the stuff they supposedly worked with, actually worked.

This all made me wonder, is it possible that over-reliance on cloud services for everything has massively deskilled the engineering workforce? And if it is so, who is going to be the European clouds, so necessary for EU’s digital sovereignty?

I did not copy-paste the post in here because of the different writing style, but I get no benefit whatsoever from website visits.

  • anytimesoon@feddit.uk
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    12 hours ago

    Everyone calls themselves senior because that’s the only type of position recruiters look for.

    I’m a mid level dev, but I’m encouraged by recruiters to apply for senior positions because their clients are actually looking for a range of levels

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, that’s true, everyone thinks they want a senior where usually someone who’s not a straight up junior is more than enough. And a fast learning and motivated junior is the best you can get, IMO, though those are pretty rare as well.