Some good points in the article, but it's an unnecessarily aggressive description of engineering as a whole, while this phenomenon is happening mostly in companies producing products with a typical frontend/backend stack. They welcomed candidates spit out of bootcamps with open arms, and now the situation is normalizing a bit.
The article also does not point out the worst part of engineering, and that's the mediocre SWE becoming a subpar manager and having the delusion that suddenly he/she knows better and can judge or tell all other SWE how to do their job ;) Those same managers will make it difficult for "great" engineering to join companies or stay.
Although, in my experience it's less rare, as those mediocre engineers have a trouble shining in the actual job (at least most of them), and they don't neccessarily want to work harder (which comes with most management jobs).
Some good points in the article, but it's an unnecessarily aggressive description of engineering as a whole, while this phenomenon is happening mostly in companies producing products with a typical frontend/backend stack. They welcomed candidates spit out of bootcamps with open arms, and now the situation is normalizing a bit.
The article also does not point out the worst part of engineering, and that's the mediocre SWE becoming a subpar manager and having the delusion that suddenly he/she knows better and can judge or tell all other SWE how to do their job ;) Those same managers will make it difficult for "great" engineering to join companies or stay.
Agree with the part about Managers :)
Although, in my experience it's less rare, as those mediocre engineers have a trouble shining in the actual job (at least most of them), and they don't neccessarily want to work harder (which comes with most management jobs).