In the past, I wrote that I was interested in finding a job after I shutdown my web dev company. Here's another interesting story--at least to me.
Very large software company calls me after finding my resume somewhere, looking for a "full stack" developer.
I told her I was tired of having to deal with all the different languages and other tech involved with every company doing something different and I wanted to find a place that is settled on one foundation but she said they deal with all kinds of tech and languages. Which is why I'm writing this. This well-established company's sites, customer facing, are bland to boring. She even told me they have a number of issues with getting all these pieces to work together. It makes me think that this is the real issue with web development--even software development--nowadays. People grabbing onto the latest headline and declaring they have to use it cause everybody on the internet is using it cause they saw it as a reddit headline(!!!)! Then they scramble to find the one guy to do React, one guy to do Vue, another to do Wordpress, another to do .NET, another for Java, etc.
If they would just establish themselves as a company that could create the same services--as this company did--using one solid methodology, they could eliminate or consolidate several of those same people in one concentrated effort.
That is what we did very successfully with a relatively small group of guys but, in the end, I could tell we were losing more and more work because we didn't want to make your Azure service work with Amazon through React on "the cloud" through Facebook APIs just so you could display your emojis. I am positive this is the cause of so many issues on the 'net today and salesman led headhunter style hiring isn't helping matters.
Very large software company calls me after finding my resume somewhere, looking for a "full stack" developer.
HR: From your resume it doesn't look like you are full stack. We're not looking for front end programmers.
Me: I don't understand. I've done everything from configure servers to programming javascript to even graphics.
HR: But you don't do React.
Me: React is front end.
Me: Are you aware that one of the web sites you now manage was created by me and my company?
HR: [crickets]
I told her I was tired of having to deal with all the different languages and other tech involved with every company doing something different and I wanted to find a place that is settled on one foundation but she said they deal with all kinds of tech and languages. Which is why I'm writing this. This well-established company's sites, customer facing, are bland to boring. She even told me they have a number of issues with getting all these pieces to work together. It makes me think that this is the real issue with web development--even software development--nowadays. People grabbing onto the latest headline and declaring they have to use it cause everybody on the internet is using it cause they saw it as a reddit headline(!!!)! Then they scramble to find the one guy to do React, one guy to do Vue, another to do Wordpress, another to do .NET, another for Java, etc.
If they would just establish themselves as a company that could create the same services--as this company did--using one solid methodology, they could eliminate or consolidate several of those same people in one concentrated effort.
That is what we did very successfully with a relatively small group of guys but, in the end, I could tell we were losing more and more work because we didn't want to make your Azure service work with Amazon through React on "the cloud" through Facebook APIs just so you could display your emojis. I am positive this is the cause of so many issues on the 'net today and salesman led headhunter style hiring isn't helping matters.