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Ravisankar: Most developers will learn to code before driving by 2028
“If you just extrapolate the trend line, I think this will be two and four or three and four developers will learn to code before they drive in the next decade or so.”
Ravisankar: Startups care more about open source portfolios than big companies
“The one thing that the startups or the execs cared about the most, because at least in a startup, you may be, you might have a recruiter or not, but most likely you're doing the recruiting on your own. They care more about your contributions or your open sourc…”
Ravisankar: Startups need stack-specific developers while big firms hire generalists
“And also one of the things that was present in the survey was how you wanted to dive in deeper on the knowledge of that particular stack, at least for a startup because of course you have very low or pretty much no bandwidth to train somebody on the new stack …”
Ravisankar: Work-life balance beats office perks in developer appeal
“And one of the things that we learned was how work-life balance Beats all of the different perks that people offer, whether that's free food or we have a ping-pong tournament every week or things along those lines.”
Ravisankar: Surveyed CS graduates report learning significantly from YouTube
“Even though you had a CS degree, a lot of developers said they actually learned a lot from YouTube over books or sites like HackerRank.”