4. Growth vs. reliable engineering and security. Lots of engineers feel unrealistic growth demands put users at risk, leave devs culpable.
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5. Working conditions, guaranteed/recoupable vacation, on-call expectations, work-from-home, open office.
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6. Social impact of work. Lots of good people doing work in e.g. adtech with little say in future abuse of data they collect.
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7. Exclusivity and credentialism, the trend in our industry away from merit and towards e.g. male CMU graduates. Also: ageism! Huge!
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8. The nonexistent career ladder most companies have for hard-tech people; expectation of “up into management or out”.
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Long story short: I do not accept the argument that tech is so well paid it can’t organize. Tech is so well paid IT SHOULD ORGANIZE.
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re: point 7, likely tech "organizing" will eventually take the form of professional orgs that enforce rather than oppose credentialism
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similar to doctors/lawyers/etc. it is in the interest of the group to restrict entry so as to shift the supply curve in their favor
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So programmers will make shitloads of money, why this is a bad thing?
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programmers already make a shitload of money, but with far, far fewer barriers to entry than any similarly compensated field
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I would prefer for it to stay this way (admittedly for mostly sentimental reasons)
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