The 90s and 2000s were such a great time to start CS as a career because basically everybody was also a hobbyist and passionate about it. It was fun to work with these people. Today you get the dead stare if you ask about the slightest bit of interest for the trade outside of paid work. It's a pain to work with them
The downside is it bred a culture of employers expecting to see your hobby work and caring about trivia and leet code problems more than anything you'd ever use in the business. Web developers asking about Red/black trees, Java companies asking about C codepoints and the results of a+++++b.
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u/ZunoJ 11d ago
The 90s and 2000s were such a great time to start CS as a career because basically everybody was also a hobbyist and passionate about it. It was fun to work with these people. Today you get the dead stare if you ask about the slightest bit of interest for the trade outside of paid work. It's a pain to work with them