“Would you ask a junior dev how to get promoted at work?”
With respect to getting a job, this is a very important point.
There are some prominent people on Twitter who actually work in data science or machine learning.
Unfortunately, the job advice they give/swear by is a bridge to absolutely nowhere because they have what one can only assume to be zero involvement in hiring decisions.
You can see this the second they get any pushback. They either go silent or produce laughable edge case scenarios to support their claims.
You have to be VERY careful when those people are handing out advice.
feel free to ask the junior how to get hired as a junior dev. Sure, you now have 1 extra piece of information. Now ask several junior devs, so you know what the most common method to becoming a junior dev. Voila.
I know what you mean by prominent. My guess is, this is just the pareto principle for a biz, you either target the elite, or the masses.
1.) Masses: Say the most emotional stuff possible to capture as wide of an audience, and keep giving "free" resources.
2.) Elite: High quality information, only for a set minority group of people.
Could be wrong on the biz stuff, but that's what my gut says.
“Would you ask a junior dev how to get promoted at work?”
With respect to getting a job, this is a very important point.
There are some prominent people on Twitter who actually work in data science or machine learning.
Unfortunately, the job advice they give/swear by is a bridge to absolutely nowhere because they have what one can only assume to be zero involvement in hiring decisions.
You can see this the second they get any pushback. They either go silent or produce laughable edge case scenarios to support their claims.
You have to be VERY careful when those people are handing out advice.
feel free to ask the junior how to get hired as a junior dev. Sure, you now have 1 extra piece of information. Now ask several junior devs, so you know what the most common method to becoming a junior dev. Voila.
I know what you mean by prominent. My guess is, this is just the pareto principle for a biz, you either target the elite, or the masses.
1.) Masses: Say the most emotional stuff possible to capture as wide of an audience, and keep giving "free" resources.
2.) Elite: High quality information, only for a set minority group of people.
Could be wrong on the biz stuff, but that's what my gut says.