> I’m not sure why anyone would want a job they clearly aren’t qualified for.
Money, obviously.
Software jobs in particular are magic in this way - the pay is way above the average, and performance metrics are so poorly defined that one can coast for months doing nothing before anyone starts suspecting anything. Years, even, in a large company, if one's lucky. 80% of the trick is landing the first gig, 15% is lasting long enough to be able to use it as a foundation of your CV, and then 5% is to keep sailing on.
No, really. There's nothing surprising about unqualified people applying for software companies. If one's fine with freeloading, then I can't think of easier money.
(And to be fair, I'd say it's 10% of freeloaders, 10% of hard workers, and in between, there's a whole spectrum of varying skills and time and mental makeups, the lower half of that is kind of unqualified but not really dishonest.)
Money, obviously.
Software jobs in particular are magic in this way - the pay is way above the average, and performance metrics are so poorly defined that one can coast for months doing nothing before anyone starts suspecting anything. Years, even, in a large company, if one's lucky. 80% of the trick is landing the first gig, 15% is lasting long enough to be able to use it as a foundation of your CV, and then 5% is to keep sailing on.
No, really. There's nothing surprising about unqualified people applying for software companies. If one's fine with freeloading, then I can't think of easier money.
(And to be fair, I'd say it's 10% of freeloaders, 10% of hard workers, and in between, there's a whole spectrum of varying skills and time and mental makeups, the lower half of that is kind of unqualified but not really dishonest.)