I just lost my job as a civil engineer and I’ve been trying to find resources, forums, staffing agencies, etc to help land me a job and all of what’s out there online talks about faang, leetcode, programming bullshit, etc. Call yourselves Computer scientists, programmers, hogs, i don’t care, please for the love just stop dominating all the ‘engineering’ discourse.

  • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    A degree from a school of engineering to prepare you to be a software engineering, and that gives you an engineer title in places where the specialization exists, along with all the classes that engineers have to take and so on. Basically what the thread says software engineers should be if they exist. For example: https://www.concordia.ca/academics/undergraduate/software-engineering.html

    Overwhelmingly, they teach even less of the relevant theory than a CS theory. Which, by the way, capitalist ghouls love to complain isn't necessary and shouldn't be taught.

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Which, by the way, capitalist ghouls love to complain isn’t necessary and shouldn’t be taught

      in this way capitalist ghouls are being silly and risk damaging the ability of future workforce's ability to maintain and significantly change codebases

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Which, by the way, capitalist ghouls love to complain isn’t necessary and shouldn’t be taught.

      There's a lot of dumb CEOs in tech, and a lot of myopia with the "learn to code" people. But luckily the industry has mostly managed to maintain its emphasis on at least a baseline understanding of the underlying theory. Christ, imagine where we'd be if people just gave up on teaching data structures and algorithms, lol.