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.
I think 4 years experience gets the “Senior” title in our company now. I can understand having 3 years experience and being frustrated when you can see how much better you are at your job than your “more senior” middle managers, but… there are plenty of things that you continue to learn in your first 10-20 years of experience, and having diversity of experience brings even more value that’s rarely acknowledged in any ranking scales - actually the ranking scales usually reward stay-put loyalty over diverse in depth experience, and that’s just backwards in my experience. Although, I have also known plenty of “job hoppers” who got around from place to place every year or two and it was clear after working with them that was because they didn’t really contribute adequate value anywhere they went.