Changes Needed for the IT industry To Make Both Companies + Engineers Successful

Behavioral changes are necessary for IT engineers to become more influential and suffer less "executor" syndrome, which is to accept whatever comes on their way and stop challenging the status quo.

An engineering mindset involves asking the question: "how can I improve this?" "what's the best way I can make this work?"

However, the client (whether it is an internal stakeholder or external client) just cares about the results.

Should the engineer just toss out this part? No, definitely not.
But asking questions and learning from inside out about importance of what he is doing is crucial to become a high-value member of any organization.

The same happens for companies that keep having unfilled IT vacancies for years. Yes, you've heard me, for years.

The recruiter looks for a candidate that has 10 years experience in DevOps, knows very specific programming languages (example: Scala) and has built solutions with PowerApps (again, a very specific tool).

So if an engineer comes and brings AWS and Java background, will he be disqualified? Probably yes.

If he has not worked with PowerApps but he has worked with n8n? The same thing.

Then the company has BOTH failed to give a strong candidate experience and failed at filling the vacancy just because ONE single assumption:
"If he has not worked with PowerApps, he can't do this job."

That's the fundamental issue. We stopped testing people critical thinking and inherent motivation, we focused too much on tools.

And that's fundamentally creating a broken system.

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