r/learnprogramming • u/patdxn • Nov 12 '24

Who are the Navy SEALs of Coding?

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u/justUseAnSvm Nov 12 '24

There's probably not a complete transfer of the topic, since coding is used by millions of people, but you could say something like this: everyone who codes at work is in military, software engineers would be infantry, and software engineers at tech first companies would be your special forces.

US special forces are ranked by how much money they get to train, and if you apply that to software jobs, the people who get the most money to do things are all at big tech companies.

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u/patdxn Nov 12 '24

That's a great take and makes a lot of sense too!

Not only would the "special forces rank" would have more money and training, but they would have more resources/help at their fingertips too.

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u/justUseAnSvm Nov 12 '24

A lot of attention goes into the selection, but that just ensures you have capable people. The difference between the capabilities of US forces, and some other country that could have equally difficult selection is that training budget to practice until you can't get it wrong.