# “If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a software engineering job?” by Curt Corginia | Better Programming - Host: [betterprogramming.pub](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/betterprogramming.pub/) - Saved: September 1, 2021 (2021-09-02T03:38:42Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/868b1d8f130e/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/868b1d8f130e.json ## What Jamie wrote The way that we go about evaluating and interviewing developers has a lot of challenges. This article highlights just some of them. As an industry, this needs attention, but it’s not a simple problem. Technologists spend all day creating things in code, that you cannot see. There is no good way to determine skill level, and the job is more craft than many appreciate. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT193: Weekly Thing #193 / POAPs, DAOs, NFTs](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/193/), Notable ## Same host - [Untangling Organizational Dependencies](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/378ded949b9d/) (betterprogramming.pub, May 19, 2022) ## Saved the same week - [Nfinita - NFT for social good platform](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9dfd6f04d0ce/) (nfinita.com, September 1, 2021) - [When you monetize your hobby, it looks a lot like a job - Vox](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1e4bf4cc8bd5/) (vox.com, September 1, 2021) - [U.S. Digital Corps](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c4a9252ec1d7/) (digitalcorps.gsa.gov, September 1, 2021) - [The Art of Not Taking Things Personally by Dave Bailey | The Founder Coach](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c9c137324c64/) (medium.dave-bailey.com, September 1, 2021) - [OpenSea Metrics — Dune Analytics](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7a6d28539b96/) (dune.xyz, September 1, 2021) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://betterprogramming.pub/if-software-engineering-is-in-demand-why-is-it-so-hard-to-get-a-software-engineering-job-c043a964e463