As someone in the IT administrating department, i feel like the new wave of software engineers have a frighteningly low understanding of the system they're developing on.
It appears as they are making plain code monkeys these days
Not the OP but been in IT for a while. The current generation entering the workforce have been using tech since birth but do not seem to understand or care how it actually works. They are generally poor troubleshooters and seem hesitant to ask for help. I figure pandemic lockdowns and remote learning made this worse.
I worked for several years in IT fields from help desk to sysadmin. I'm now a Sr. Software Engineer.
I somewhat disagree. With containerization like Docker our system is pretty simple. However, there are lot more bootcamp developers that learned to code in 12 weeks which are going to know a lot less than those with a Bachelors or higher in the field.
Honestly I get the same feeling. When I was in school from my CS degree a few years ago I noticed how everyone in my classes didn't know much about how computers communicate with one and another at a low level, amongst other things. My theory is that most people when learning to code nowadays, learn just that and only that. But I suspect with the rise in popularity of high level languages over the past decade(s) is the root cause
I admit, as an IT grease monkey myself, stuff like this about the incoming generation of coders usually foretells that support will need to work harder.
I know not all coders are like this, I've met a lot of very competent and capable coders, but if the younger generation that's graduating into development know very little about the platform, it tells me that college's are not doing the whole job, and there's going to be a lot of underskilled developers getting into making production code very soon and likely on an ongoing basis.... Which just means the IT support folk, whether sysadmin, network admin, or otherwise, will need to do a lot of work forklifting their skills up to par any time someone goes from college into the workforce.
Over the years it gets tiring, it doesn't help that there's a huge technological illiteracy issue even though we depend on it and use it every waking moment.
Yes!
I always call it tech debt. It fits because, I’m constantly bailing out bankrupt users that are too big to fail. Solve Literacy , solve debt , then I can go back to making things
I like being the it person. I would rather tackle a problem than leave someone else to struggle with it. It makes me hate software especially software that doesn't play nice with other software.
In one of my IT classes in high school we have a network (not connected to the internet) we we told to setup a printer on the network. My group managed to print to a printer on a different network.
I tell anyone who asks that my consultant rates are $300/hour with a 4 hour minimum - and that I have a specialization in cloud architecture and ops stuff.
For some reason, people with printer/windows/Facebook/phone problems suddenly change the subject...
Darn it, I should have used that excuse, but now I’ve demonstrated value…. Guess I have to continue through with the rest of the D.E.N.N.I.S system on my own aunt.
IT guy here. Using printers as the example is perfectly hilarious to me. I am often dampening expectations with the old “there’s a few pieces of technology you will not find a 5 star review for, and printers are #1” in other words, their is not a model out there I’ll stake my reputation on.