<story><title>Today’s Top Tech Skills</title><url>https://www.hiringlab.org/2019/11/19/todays-top-tech-skills/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>It remains weird and disturbing to me that &amp;quot;AWS&amp;quot; is treated as a skill. Not &amp;quot;cloud system management&amp;quot;, but &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;AWS&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I do understand &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; it can be lucrative to have expertise with a specific cloud provider. It&amp;#x27;s just the status quo of these services being their own unique silos that disturbs me: I would personally be wary of making &amp;quot;ability to effectively use Amazon&amp;#x27;s servers&amp;quot; a pillar of my career.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smnrchrds</author><text>I am a mechanical engineer. Mechanical engineering jobs ask for SolidWorks&amp;#x2F;AutoCAD&amp;#x2F;CATIA&amp;#x2F;Creo&amp;#x2F;etc experience, not just computer-aided design; ANSYS&amp;#x2F;ABAQUS&amp;#x2F;NASTRAN&amp;#x2F;etc expertise, not just finite element method; Fluent&amp;#x2F;CFX&amp;#x2F;OpenFOAM&amp;#x2F;etc knowledge, not just computational fluid dynamics.&lt;p&gt;With the exception of OpenFOAM, all of these software are proprietary, largely non-interoperable, and expensive—like thousands to tens of thousands of dollars for the cheapest option with basic functionality kind of expensive; like I can never imagine opening my independent consultancy business because how expensive the basic tools are kind of expensive.&lt;p&gt;Outside of programming, this is the norm. The number of free and&amp;#x2F;or open-source tools available to a mechanical engineer or an electrical engineer are infinitesimally small and it is almost impossible to do a serious engineering project with only free tools.&lt;p&gt;Since this is quite lucrative for the companies making those tools, I can only imagine tech companies would be more than happy to lead us to a future where software engineering is similar in this regard to other engineering disciplines. Perhaps this is what happens when a field matures, and since software is maturing, it will become more and more like this as the time goes on.</text></comment>
<story><title>Today’s Top Tech Skills</title><url>https://www.hiringlab.org/2019/11/19/todays-top-tech-skills/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>It remains weird and disturbing to me that &amp;quot;AWS&amp;quot; is treated as a skill. Not &amp;quot;cloud system management&amp;quot;, but &amp;quot;&lt;i&gt;AWS&lt;/i&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I do understand &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; it can be lucrative to have expertise with a specific cloud provider. It&amp;#x27;s just the status quo of these services being their own unique silos that disturbs me: I would personally be wary of making &amp;quot;ability to effectively use Amazon&amp;#x27;s servers&amp;quot; a pillar of my career.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moltar</author><text>You can say smithing like, “weird to see Linux admin, instead of OS admin”. But doesn’t make sense in a business context, if you want a Linux admin.</text></comment>