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...as long as your cool with maintaining 10+ year old legacy code written by monkeys.
Lots of company's could use major refactoring of their custom software.
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You're describing my current job with suspicious accuracy 
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He wrote that stuff in his last job.
ROTFLMAO 
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It should be fairly easy now that the world runs on technology, however, it largely depends on filtering out all the fake jobs and then getting past incompetent salesmen, sorry I mean recruiters, because you don't have 10 years XML experience on your CV or you don't have experience in all of the 300 odd skills the "client" has in their job spec.
To be honest though, I've not had any real issues in finding work over the years, either as a contractor or as a perm. The majority of which has been in desktop development. It gets a little harder as you get older though as this whole ageist thing kicks in.
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I like the ads where they want 10 years experience in a technology that's only 5 years old.
Da Bomb
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It kind of depends on the tech stack as well. There are just so many different stacks these days, that even though there are many jobs available there might not be a suitable one for you.
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I started a new job at a software consulting firm a few months before Covid, where I performed on-site work at a couple corporate clients.
After Covid hit, I switched to working remotely for a client I'd done on-site work for. Then, the consulting firm got bought out by a larger firm (who had far more client work to do than consultants to do it).
The larger consulting firm showered us in raises and bonuses during the pandemic, and I've had massive, relentless demand for remote work involving my skillset. From my perspective, work should be easy to come by (at least for experienced developers).
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It's a strange new world. Not trying to start a heated discussion, just making the point that this is one of the new non-technical criteria.
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because the recommended skill level and amount is hugh and also some social skills arent so common. And I guess the human resources want to play some chicken game.
Most vacations have some issues so it only looks easy 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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The best combination is still someone who 25 years old with 25 years experience. 
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ronlease wrote: The best combination is still someone who 25 years old with 25 years experience.
At best in a technology that is 5 years old.
(Would not be the first recruiter asking something similar...  )
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Because I still get job offers weekly... 
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But would you like that job and have the skill set?
Press F1 for help or google it.
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At least most are in my skill set and some seem like really good opportunities.
Once in a while I get a Java or even PHP offer, but not often.
The problem is usually that these are "opportunities near me" which to recruiters means on the other side of the country.
I guess you can't expect a recruiter's single brain cell to be able to estimate distances.
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In Italy, which already has very little job opportuinities. Embedded and Firmware are the present and future, too bad they require knowledge that this generation considers obsolete - ANSI C, a smidgen of C++, Assembler is welcome and gets nice bonusses, digital electronics, analog electronics will net you a crapton of money.
Of course for the army of JavaScript kiddies and the lovers of huge bloated useless frameworks with an average lifespan of .3 ms the situation is more difficult.
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Quote: Of course for the army of JavaScript kiddies and the lovers of huge bloated useless frameworks with an average lifespan of .3 ms the situation is more difficult.
Thank the gods!
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den2k88 wrote: too bad they require knowledge that this generation considers obsolete...
Exactly.
Automation and "old" technologies are not outdated, no matter what the "programming language" ranking of the week say.
And willing to learn new (or old) things (and partially being able to do so) is a very, very big plus point. Sadly the current "fresh" generation are IMHO a bit more lazy in this point than we were / are.
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I think they are victims of marketing and misconception. Not reinventing the wheel is fine, until you need very specific wheels and off-the-shelf wheels are not good enough.
I will always point my experience on a 6 KB RAM, 128 KB flash microcontroller which had to respond to 125 us interrupts AND manage high level functionalities as well. We had our own stripped down, hyper-optimized math.h and our own interpolation functions. Any other implementation wasn't fast and small enough... and it wasn't even the lowest tier SoC.
Even on Intel PCs I had to write hyperoptimized procedures which used all the available SSE instruction sets (sadly no AVX at that time) because processing a 2MB images multiple dozens times in less than 50ms is no easy feat. OpenCV was at its best 10x slower than our implementations even before I squeezed in Assembly magic.
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Nice... and "scary" on the same time.
The smallest hardware I had to deal with out of college was up to 10 modules of 64 Kb space and a polling system around 75 ms with around 1 Mb RAM. Project was outsourced and abandoned after a time.
Later on I got into the Automation with Siemens PLCs and robotics and so on. Which could be pretty limited as well (at least the old ones), but still magnitudes bigger than what you are used to.
Analog electronics is where I really should get a refreshing course because I haven't used it more than a couple of months since I left college, but that would only be in cases of extreme necessity.
With my current skill set there already is a wide market to be busy with.
den2k88 wrote: I think they are victims of marketing and misconception. Not reinventing the wheel is fine, until you need very specific wheels and off-the-shelf wheels are not good enough.
I agree, but do not underestimate the own laziness and / or swagger of some of the young people.
Luckily there still are many others out there, that are open to learn from the previous generation and once they taste "the other side" wonder "what have I been doing with my life before this?"
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how difficult is to get a Job in software development these days,
but what I can say is, that I am not afraid because I know I would find something if I needed to (and not necessarily worsening my overall condition)
ADDITION:
I do suppose that finding a job currently is not that difficult, another question is how good the job is or not.
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modified 13-Sep-21 4:54am.
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you are right, but finding a nearly perfect offer is hard.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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That has always been hard.
If I really had the need, I would get something not that good and then continue searching for the good one.
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