In 2006-2007 someone walked me through step by atep how to assemble a computer in a newegg.com chatroom with the parts I had already purchased. That person changed my life. Thanks human.
Serious question: Dont software changes with companies dealing with human lives have to go through a rigorous lab testing environment? And then maybe a beta group?
I’ve been to a talk from the chief test engineer at Saab talking about all the Hardware in the Loop labs they use to test at unit, integration, and full system levels. Then there’s additional testing after that phase… It’s not a CD world!
I work in logistics and let me tell you what I think would attract high quality developers.
#1 good benefits. More than 2 weeks pto. A paid sick leave policy. Company paid health care. Paternity leave. Company match on 401k.
#2 Leadership that cares about good engineering over deadlines. Logistics is very fast paced. There is often a lot of pressure to deploy things yesterday. Development takes time, trial, and error. You need to be able to have patience for engineering.
If anybody asks you to work on IBM i or AS400 turn and run.
The system is cool. But the majority of jobs are underpaid in comparison to the open source stacks. And they wonder why there is a lack of new blood.
There are many articles out there claiming COBOL/Mainframe/AS400/“ancient” programmers are retiring and the orgs want to pay you big bucks to replace them. For the most part they are just parlor tricks to try and get a cost savings on new grads.
