My academic background is Electronic Engineering and embedded development but found myself in fullstack and then frontend development roles for over 7 years. I began to experience what you described, essentially a bunch of hype technologies bandwagoned by junior devs and HR recruiters spouting buzzwords and insane abstractions, npm dependency hell and glue code coming out of my ears. The whole ecosystem is crazy.
The worst part about it is the technical debt that companies encounter. Technology should be serving business objectives, first and foremost. If your tech-stack is outdated in 2 years time, something is really wrong.
I’ve gone back to EE, hardware engineering and embedded development. I think this specialization probably reduces job availability, but I can always fall back to webdev in tougher times if I have to, and its something to set me apart from all the 8 week bootcamp coders flooding into the webdev market
It’s not about the content, it’s about the delivery. People need to be more respectful of others anecdotal experiences.
Evidence based Science cannot read between the lines all the time
The worst part about it is the technical debt that companies encounter. Technology should be serving business objectives, first and foremost. If your tech-stack is outdated in 2 years time, something is really wrong.
I’ve gone back to EE, hardware engineering and embedded development. I think this specialization probably reduces job availability, but I can always fall back to webdev in tougher times if I have to, and its something to set me apart from all the 8 week bootcamp coders flooding into the webdev market