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		aembleton on Aug 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Unemployable Programmer "But they're not talking about people like me, they're talking about twenty-something Ivy League post docs with stellar CVs." We're trying to recruit a devops with AWS experience. We really don't care about which uni you went to or didn't go to. Probably no good for you as we're in Manchester, UK but I don't think we're that unique.

CmonDev on Aug 3, 2015 [–]

He probably wants to be a developer rather than a support though.

eropple on Aug 3, 2015 | [–]

This is goofy and a little insulting. At my clients, I write more code than plenty of developers. Turns out it tends to be necessary when you're developing (key word) build pipelines and tooling. I also get to touch a lot more of the stack.

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