IT needs more brains, so why is it so bad at getting them?::Open-book exams aren’t nearly open enough

  • Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    The article argues for a reworked IT education industry in the hopes of a more skilled workforce:

    The result would solve the industry’s most pressing need, for good people doing good work, and through expansion into other areas benefit us more than AI will ever manage.

    Most IT today exists as a means to support business and commerce. Corporations post absurd profits year over year. They don’t need more knowledgeable IT staff. What is “good” for the IT industry employers may be more staff willing to say “yes, sir” and kick the can down the road. Business doesn’t care about efficient systems if their systems are profitable.

    So why is IT bad at getting brains? Because it is against most leadership’s interests. Progress, change, automation all introduce risk which can hurt profitability.

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      1 year ago

      If you’re not familiar with what they do, IT also be seen as a money sink, since there’s no obvious sign of them preventing things from going wrong. So they might seem like they’re just a department sitting there wasting money, or they’re a department you wasted money on when the company is inevitably hacked, for not stopping it in the first place.