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primeblue on Dec 29, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Laid off tech workers quickly find new jobs

What kind of a rotten profession is software engineering that it dismisses more experience.

Doctors, engineers, lawyers, builders, architects, brick layers, pilots etc are sought after if they have more experience

jjav on Dec 30, 2022 [–]

A lot of truth to this. It is difficult to think of any profession where the value of experience is less understood than in software engineering.

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