Hey all! 👋 I’m Ryo, a Sr. Design Technologist at PlayStation. I do web dev with React/TS/Node and game dev with Unity/C#/C++/OpenGL/DirectX. Feel free to ask me any questions! 🤘
We work in an unregulated industry where information is only proven by other "experts" in the fields (usually a team member or consultant).
Electricians, plumbers, architects -- all have to get licensed by the local government to operate their business. Why? Because as a society we understand that the quality of their job impacts the wellbeing of real people. If a house isn't built properly, someone can get hurt.
But when it comes to creating applications for people, particularly ones that engage with a certain level of a user's privacy or information, developers aren't required by law to get certified by their local government (or even a larger governing body for developers).
This lack of standard for licensing causes fissures in the professional development community. Who do I trust with my application code? The guy who says he took a bootcamp, or the one who says he's an expert in React. It all has to be proven, either by a fellow expert observing the professional produce the code in person, or by probing the professional with known issues concerning the topic.
It's similar in the art world, where everyone has different backgrounds and methodologies for accomplishing tasks. Someone may know how to use Photoshop or Illustrator, but may not have experience actually physically printing their work -- which would be somewhat necessary for a position like "Head of Printing".
Obviously some developers take this to an extreme when they require seemingly unnecessary knowledge for the position. There's a line between what I need to know, and what an elitist things I should know. Or really, it lets me know how truly broad the job description is -- and that as a Senior React Engineer, I'll probably be doing devops too 😜
The difference, is that you don’t ask a plumber to build a swing for 20 people (hey, why not? He knows his tubes !?!), or even an “electrician” to build a MHD flying saucer (after all, it’s just wires with current and tension).
But in the case of a software developper, you will ask him to build anything, impacting from the smallest data item (a few bits in a processor) to the whole world! Now people complain that bitcoin miners contribute to the climate change!
So yes, a software developper has the moral obligaton to know more than just a programming langage (I would hire somebody giving a good answer the that interview questions, even if he knew no programming language (as long as he can still do the fizzbuzz program in pseudo code)).
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We work in an unregulated industry where information is only proven by other "experts" in the fields (usually a team member or consultant).
Electricians, plumbers, architects -- all have to get licensed by the local government to operate their business. Why? Because as a society we understand that the quality of their job impacts the wellbeing of real people. If a house isn't built properly, someone can get hurt.
But when it comes to creating applications for people, particularly ones that engage with a certain level of a user's privacy or information, developers aren't required by law to get certified by their local government (or even a larger governing body for developers).
This lack of standard for licensing causes fissures in the professional development community. Who do I trust with my application code? The guy who says he took a bootcamp, or the one who says he's an expert in React. It all has to be proven, either by a fellow expert observing the professional produce the code in person, or by probing the professional with known issues concerning the topic.
It's similar in the art world, where everyone has different backgrounds and methodologies for accomplishing tasks. Someone may know how to use Photoshop or Illustrator, but may not have experience actually physically printing their work -- which would be somewhat necessary for a position like "Head of Printing".
Obviously some developers take this to an extreme when they require seemingly unnecessary knowledge for the position. There's a line between what I need to know, and what an elitist things I should know. Or really, it lets me know how truly broad the job description is -- and that as a Senior React Engineer, I'll probably be doing devops too 😜
The difference, is that you don’t ask a plumber to build a swing for 20 people (hey, why not? He knows his tubes !?!), or even an “electrician” to build a MHD flying saucer (after all, it’s just wires with current and tension).
But in the case of a software developper, you will ask him to build anything, impacting from the smallest data item (a few bits in a processor) to the whole world! Now people complain that bitcoin miners contribute to the climate change!
So yes, a software developper has the moral obligaton to know more than just a programming langage (I would hire somebody giving a good answer the that interview questions, even if he knew no programming language (as long as he can still do the fizzbuzz program in pseudo code)).