Gen Z jobs aren’t dead yet: $240 billion tech giant IBM says it’s rewriting entry-level jobs—and tripling down on its hiring of young talent.

  • Railcar8095@piefed.social
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    11 hours ago

    I had IBM as a client. A very high level executive was over the moon when we showed a sql query, a basic select-agg-groupby thing. He loved our “natural language data extraction technology”. The meeting wasnt about that, he just asumed we had invented sql queries.

    His staff was furious but couldnt correct him live in front of a large audience.

    We signed a multi million contract based on this persons lack of understanding, we didnt even have to lie, he just fooled himself.

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      6 hours ago

      I had a boss once come to me with an article he had just read about how APIs were the next big thing in programming. He told me I should incorporate some APIs in our software and I told him I would research it. This was in 2010.

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      8 hours ago

      Reminds me of the peter principle. You’ll get promoted until you’re no longer doing a good enough job to justify another promotion. This leads to having incompetent people in higher positions.