alt Hacker NewsHow is it hand waving? It's literally true a large corporation can fire a customer support agent while sponsoring a software engineer, it is not interchangeable talent
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tracerbulletx • today at 4:37 PM
I doubt that's the argument they're making. They're saying they are laying of a software engineer in one org, and hiring another software engineer in a different org. Not cross functional roles.
penskymaterial • today at 4:54 PM
The army of developers stuck working helpdesk right now because they can't find work, would like a word.
franktankbank • today at 4:43 PM
Maybe they weren't exactly doing that. Calling a developer something else doesn't make it so.
eastbound • today at 4:39 PM
Talent can be trained, less across jobs (although it's often what public services ask to entrepreneurs in some European countries), much more across departments.
If we had a union we would be training people from customer support to engineer.
I truly believe that software would be improved immensely if all developers spent a few years doing tech support for the elderly.