A thought I had last week: Would anyone hire a software engineer to do anything other than engineering? As highly technical as these skills are, they don’t seem easily transferable.
Yet even the shitty company that’s questioning my technical ability said that I have excellent communication and ability to collaborate, which should really count for much more than it does in this industry. I’ve worked with too many engineers who are noticeably bad at these things.
I know I’m going on about this, but it’s bigger than my current job search woes.
My desire to remain in tech is hanging by a thread. The recent layoffs and all these shady hiring practices have me feeling like tech doesn’t care about people at all.
I can’t ignore the way tech treats its own people while building products and supposedly solving problems for people. It doesn’t track.
@paolamata there are a lot of terrible managers and treatments of folks in every industry.
It sucks that so much of it has been normalized, and that so much of it will be encouraged by “macroeconomic conditions” and whatnot.
I hope you find a good fit 🤞
Paola Mata
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