Tech Industry
Yesterday
470
Chances of meta clearing E5 with screwing up one coding one round and acing all other
Layoffs
2d
40588
Google CFO confirms 'large-scale' layoffs (Apr 17)
Tech Industry
Yesterday
1408
So hard being a women in tech industry
2024 Presidential Election
Yesterday
1784
Biden ruined America and tech! Tax plans are insane
Tech Industry
2d
52762
Goog Employees Arrested
Most of blind is about stack ranking, long hours, loss of wlb, job insecurity, ageism, sexism in the industry, outsourcing to name a few. Granted there are worse professions out there that pay less but assuming your kid asked you this question "daddy/mommy/ do you love what you do and do you think this would be a good choice for me", what would you tell them?
They can be whatever they want
I would encourage it from the standpoint of if they are interested in it, I have experience and could help them out. But they can do whatever they want.
Will teach them programming. Whether to do it as a profession is totally up to them.
Sure. It's easier than being a doctor or a (good) lawyer, and pays better than other forms of engineering. Of course, the markets may change.
Yes, without hesitation. The Silicon Valley complaints in the OP are mostly overblown, but you don't even need to work at a "tech company" to be a developer. Most software development involves in-house applications for companies that focus on other things.
Let em find it on their own.
I come from a family of lawyers and was the odd one out to do something other than a arts undergrad. Do what you want to do, and you should be ok. But you need to know what your next steps are.