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Comment by wmeredith | Hacker News Reader

As someone who holds a certification as an AEM Business Solutions Specialist (possibly lapsed by now) I have to agree. It's hot garbage.

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How do I transfer out of AEM? I’m a junior dev at a company that uses AEM and I realized long ago that I’m wasting my time with it, but I have trouble landing interviews with AEM as my primary dev experience. I’m not an AEM author, I use Java every day.

Forget everything you know and keep learning Java or start learning C#. Yesterday.

My friend also wasn't enthusiastic about AEM at his workplace, he wanted just "ordinary" Java. But Java is just a tool and one often lands in some legacy or overgrown enterprise solution.

I advised him to do AEM certifications. He did and then contract recruiters has started to flood him. He collects tons of cash as independent AEM consultant now. And with Java, he does "fulfilling" Java stuff on the side.

Educate me: What does AEM do that a tweaked WordPress or Drupal (or even SharePoint Site Template) doesn't?

The modern version of "Nobody got fired for buying IBM" is "nobody got fired by using a brand name the boss recognizes". That is what AEM does that Drupal does not.

The boss doesn't know what content management even is, but they have heard of Photoshop and Acrobat so AEM must be good.

Also, they’re paying millions a year just for the license. Nobody would do that if the product wasn’t best in class right?

Sadly, there’s a lot of truth in that!

Guarantee they ran an RFP process for the CMS. AEM does everything its not intuitive and overly complex. Just like Concur does everything and but everyone hates it yet its defacto expense program at large companies.

Can't you use similar logic to tell your boss that nasa, energy.gov, the beatles, weather.com, tbs and all those other older-people-know-about-this sites all use drupal?

At least it's tolerable at all compared to the shitshow that is AEM.

it's suited mostly for large multinationals. I havent used drupal or wordpress at that scale, but if you have website that you need to rollout to >30 countries in many languages AEM might be for you.

just an example of the kind of companies that use it. apple, intel,etc .e.g https://jobs.apple.com/en-in/details/200207733/aem-engineer

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