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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There is almost no ability to move up in any position in the industry

Change jobs every three years until you find a place that doesn’t suck.

The insanity of the industry is that employers will hire some schmuck with “10 years experience” on their resume for twice what they’re paying the guy who has worked at the firm for ten years.

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lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Change jobs every three years until you find a place that doesn’t suck.

Most of my social circle is in tech and we’re spread across or have worked for basically every company in our city and that isn’t really a thing here.

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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you know a big chunk of your city’s skilled developers and you collectively agree all the firms suck… might not be a bad idea to start organizing and withholding your labor as a unit.
  
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  - lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I only know a handful, we’ve all just moved around a lot through our careers.
    
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M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Urgh, yeah it is just so bad. Most places don’t even have a possible job above yours to even potentially move to. Where I was they literally sold us to a competitor (then unsold me as they forgot about a few contracts) and then just removed all the positions above us or related to our department. I lost 3 layers of bosses one day (not that anyone noticed much). And then expect people to just happily go on and on and on.

The fact they could not hire anyone (I was the “new” guy for 10 years on my team) was down to really shitty hiring practices, that automated the requirements in such a way that the only people who could get an interview would have had to lie on their applications. They where desperately trying to say they wanted to hire more people but no one was “qualified”, meanwhile they froze pay for years (really showing that dood that was there for years how much they care).

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- NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  When android and ios were taking off, I’d see job requirements saying 8 to 10 years experience on Android development.
  
  It hadn’t been out 8 to 10 years.
  
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  - M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oddly a very common occurrence. It was normally one or a combo of 3 impossible things:
    
    Experience needed with a thing that has not existed for the time asked for (like your example)
    
    Experience needed with a thing that does not exist at all (typos or just full on bullshit like “5 years in QQR8F deployment”)
    
    Or my favourite, Experience needed in a tool/program that is only used by the company like our proprietary call management software.
    
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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  The fact they could not hire anyone (I was the “new” guy for 10 years on my team) was down to really shitty hiring practices
  
  Not a bad time to start collectively bargaining, especially if you’ve got your fingers in the dam.
  
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  - M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    HA, not at that sort of place. Unions where never even allowed to be talked about, they instafired anyone that even hinted, illegal or not they did not let that happen.
    
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