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[–] Furbag 7 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The cross-industry term for "no experience required" is "entry level", not unskilled.

I don't think that there's such a thing as unskilled jobs, because no company would ever advertise that they are seeking "unskilled" laborers. Even jobs like flipping burgers at McDonalds are treated with a certain degree of seriousness and professional reverence by the company themselves. They want to hire people who are quick on their feet, are familiar with how to cook, can memorize orders including substitutions, multitask in the kitchen, and so on. Those are undeniably skills that one must train, either independently or on the job itself.

Unskilled labor is entirely a fictitious term invented by the media to describe jobs that they deem unimportant or trivial, with the sole purpose of denigrating the demographic of people who work those jobs as a primary means to earn a living.

[–] chitak166 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

The cross-industry term for “no experience required” is “entry level”, not unskilled.

Not true. For example, "entry-level" Python programming jobs will expect you to have experience with the Python programming language.

They will not teach you Python programming skills, let alone programming skills in general, on-site.

You're conflating with "no occupation experience" with "no prior experience."

[–] Theharpyeagle 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my experience, maybe 20% of your job is based on what you know about the language going in. The rest is learning that particular companies pipelines, practices, and code base. Junior devs are absolutely expected to learn on the job, both about the product and development in general.

[–] Pipoca 3 points 1 year ago

Junior devs are expected to learn on the job, but to come in with a solid base level of proficiency.

My internships and first junior position didn't require me to know the language they used, but they required me to know a similar language and be able to program already. Being able to at least write pseudocode was absolutely required for those interviews.

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