[mxuribe]

I'm sorry, nothing personal...but any place that requires 8 years of experience but only gives a title of "junior" is pretty dang close to a sweat shop.

On a different note, i do see what you mention about some op excellence skills (e.g. project management, requirements gathering, etc.) being areas of concern at my $dayjob. But, i kinda always saw them as skills that are valuable in any era, and need not only be in this AI era....but everyone's mileage and environment certainly can vary that expectation. Also, at my $dayjob, the business lacks so much funding to pay software vendors fairly, properly that we get what we pay for....so its often low quality output. Its not low *code* because we employee and contract regular, full code devs....but it certainly often is poor quality...and i wonder as low code offerings and opportunities - paired with more solid AI development asistance - continue to emerge, i suppose something like a SRE role can become that much more important - regardless if one works in low code or low cost arena.

[austin-cheney]

I think you are too hung up on titles. This is the least sweatshop job I have ever had in my 20 year career. Vanity titles is how they get you.

[mxuribe]

I acknowledge being hung up on titles. I used to give titles too much attention as a very new person on my very first job...then over the decades, i learned not to get hung up on titles...but i guess my current $dayjob has sooooo many flaws (organizationally, they're very amateurish), that it seems i got re-sensitized to titles. Here, titles seem to give a person everything from significantly better pay, to better authority, to training offerings, etc., etc...even beyond the point of being rational and sound. Its almost to the point of something silly like in the Office Space movie. So yeah, i guess the dire state of my current employer has made me a bit more negative than i used to be, and now focusing on crap like titles. ;-) I guess they got me (for now)!

If your place is indeed the least sweatshop job, then congrats and enjoy the good parts! :-)