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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] 3 points 11 hours ago

now it takes 6 rounds of interviews for an entry level position at a startup.

I think it was 1996 vs 2002... 1996 we advertised in the Miami Herald for an engineer and got about a dozen applicants, 3 worth interviewing, none worth hiring and had to continue to search through personal networking to fill the role. 2002 we placed a nearly identical ad in the same classified section of the same paper, but by this time the Miami Herald was "online." We even added the line "only local candidates will be considered." Within the first week I had over 300 resumes on my desk, half of them from far afield - even overseas, so they were easy to sort... Still, plowing through the remainder, after about 50 quick scans I found one former employee of a company we did regular business with for over a decade, the question to his ex-manager was "if you had the chance, would you rehire him?" That yes shot down the rest of the applications dead - we just didn't have the resources to even read all the applications, much less sort or answer or interview them.

I can only imagine the flood of candidates applying for every opening today. Take your resume, e-mail it to 30 recruiters, they each apply to 30 positions for you...