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Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent (loudwhisper.me)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My take on how a decade (or more) of using cloud services for everything has seemingly deskilled the workforce.

Just recently I found myself interviewing senior security engineers just to realize that in many cases they had absolutely no idea about how the stuff they supposedly worked with, actually worked.

This all made me wonder, is it possible that over-reliance on cloud services for everything has massively deskilled the engineering workforce? And if it is so, who is going to be the European clouds, so necessary for EU's digital sovereignty?

I did not copy-paste the post in here because of the different writing style, but I get no benefit whatsoever from website visits.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You want to hire the "guru", not the "principal". You want to actually ask him to write 0xD6 in decimal, and if he dares to answer "Seriously? Come on now, that's boring", then you hire him on the spot.

But you can't hire only gurus. You need normal seniors, too. Build a normal team around one guru. Maybe build one ultra advanced team around 2-3 gurus, if you really need to invent new and hardcore difficult stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Instead of hiring gurus, I think you want a diverse set of curious "regular" people. Maybe one person is really good with working in different number bases (and 0xD6 in decimal is something they know off the top of their head), another is really good w/ databases, etc. None of those would know everything, but they're all curious and picked up random stuff from their career because they asked a lot of questions.

Hiring the right guru is hard, having the equivalent of a guru across a diverse time is a lot more tractible, and maybe one will become that guru you need after cross pollinating with the team.