Software Engineering - Re: Employed Programmers (off topic) was: Timeless Classics of Software Engineering

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Re: Employed Programmers (off topic) was: Timeless Classics of Software Engineering

Richard Riehle

2004-08-20, 3:58 pm

"Phlip" <phlip_cpp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:WSgVc.2389$xA7.1066@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com...
>
> I heard a rumor than everyone with significant "XP" on their resume, in
the
> Bay Area, was hitched. But I wouldn't know...
>
In the SF Bay area, as far north as Napa, as far south as Salinas,
as far East as Merced, one keeps running into Pizza chefs, store
clerks, security guards, insurance salespersons, real estate sale
people, handymen, etc., who claim that they used to be computer
programmers. Throughout Silicon Valley, one meets former
engineers whose skill set was so narrowly focused that they
were laid off in the last round. It is sometimes amazing to me,
and humbling, that so many highly educated, well-trained,
technologists are now engaged in low-paying service industry
jobs, even as some large companies continue to import
specialized engineers from abroad.

Richard Riehle

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