dialupmodem

I'm 31 and have been in software since I was 18. After leaving my last job, I feel like I have woken up and suddenly everyone wants to be a "coder" and consequently I have to do a bunch of social engineering to prove that I am not an imposter just to get a job. Ironically, this new social proof that is now required to get a job as a developer proves absolutely nothing about development knowledge or ability, but in fact makes it easier for complete beginners to fool their way into a paycheck.

I look around and see complete newcomers to the industry walk out of dev bootcamps and straight into decently paid jobs because they know how to "code" and have a github profile, a twitter account, and stickers on their laptop.

The best of these people speak loud and speak often out of their vast 2 years of experience coding React apps, and have contributed nothing but unpolished junk code that barely works and is riddled with unresolved issues.

Is this really what things have come to? I have to be a "code rockstar" to get a job? Competence be damned?