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  • Just because you’re the CEO of a big company, it doesn’t mean you know what you’re talking about. In this case it’s clear he doesn’t. You may say “but the company makes a lot of money” and that’s not a point in his favor either, as this is a clear example of survivor bias. Coding is going nowhere and the companies laying off people are just a proof CEOs don’t know what they are doing.

    For years there have been open source solutions ready for basically any purpose, and if that has not made coders useless, nothing will. Maybe they will change designation, but people that understand what’s going on at a technical level will always be necessary.

    There have been some situations in the past few years that made the situation less clear-cut, but that doesn’t make coders optional.


  • Seven years ago I was asked to do interview with recruiter, technical screening, a take home test that took me most of a weekend, and a 3.5 hours long interview with a BE, a FE and a tech architect asking me stuff from all the stack including infrastructure and architecture, and including pair programming with yhe FE and then the BE on the project I presented. It was hard but worth it in the end, my point is the process depends on the company and there is huge variability.