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Submitted 11 months ago by Aboel3z@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev
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MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 11 months ago
echindod@programming.dev 11 months ago
This guy’s got tiger blood.
popcar2@programming.dev 11 months ago
I know this post probably wasn’t intended to be malicious but it is insane you wrote this without realizing how it’s emanating privilege and not understanding why people can’t find a job.
I graduated over a year ago from my CS degree. Excellent GPA, with honors. I’ve been learning game dev since college and have been (sort of) doing it professionally since graduation. I’ve done a 4-month internship, two mediocre part-time jobs, some freelancing, and I still can’t find a proper job. The industry is collapsing and the job market is flooded with talent that have a dozen years of experience. Combine that with the fact that I live in a poor country where there aren’t many game dev jobs, and finding one is a nightmare.
Let me get this straight. The blog post says you’ve been working for 10 years, maybe more. You already have insane amounts of experience and a past history with companies. Not only that, but you contacted people you’ve already networked with to help you find a job.
Well alright, I guess I’ll contact my manager friend at Google and tell them I want a job now and have him refer me. I guess it wasn’t so hard after all.
Maybe working in the industry for a dozen years has something to do with being able to find a job easily
MagicShel@programming.dev 11 months ago
I’ve got twenty five years in and I know how good I’ve got it. I may not always be able to get the job I want, but I don’t ever have to worry about not working. That’s an incredible luxury. But also, unfortunately it really sucks training up completely green developers. They often contribute negative value to the team and then once you finally get them to the point where you can start relying on them, they leave or your team gets broken up. That’s not the fault of young developers at all, but it’s just a reality we all have to navigate. I do enjoy working with enthusiastic and curious people, and experience is certainly no guarantee of that. And I like having new perspectives and skills, even if I hate to crush their expectations with the reality of development. We currently can’t use fucking lambdas because they aren’t supported on our ancient version of Spring.
popcar2@programming.dev 11 months ago
I’ve heard this a lot and I get it, but I feel like there’s a breaking point where most juniors just won’t put up with it and there will be a drought of genuinely good talent in the industry. Personally the vast majority of people I know have given up on working whatever they wanted to work in (Embedded systems, cybersecurity, gaming, etc) and just became web developers. Ironically you catch companies that don’t hire juniors say things like “It’s so hard to find anyone that cares” or recruiters saying hiring for one spot takes months because they can’t find the perfect candidate. Something has to change imo, the path should become clearer than telling everyone to get 5 years of experience then come back when they’re ready.
MegaMacSlice@programming.dev 11 months ago
I wouldn’t limit yourself to game dev and you might consider looking for a software product tech support role to get your “foot in the door”.
Obviously if your heart is set on game dev then ignore me. But getting some experience in software dev in general will help you be able to pivot to other roles or sectors.