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My sense is that there are plenty of junior level opportunities still out there, although fewer than before.
But senior level positions which pay a decent salary (which i define as £200k+/year in London) are especially hard to find and get nowadays, compared to years prior.
I feel like at least part of the problem is that tech hiring as a whole just hasn't adapted to remote work. Companies are still using the same hiring pipelines from when everyone was naturally filtered by being within X miles of the office (or motivated enough to relocate), so they get bajillions of applications they're unable to handle properly, which leads to devs who would previously stand out also having to apply…
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But many people are claiming that chatgpt increases their productivity by 50-100%. Doesn't it mean we need less programmers now?
No, it means we are building even more stuff with the same developers. The limiting factor still is the number of software developers, not the software demand.
It's pretty brutal here in Australia. Higher interest rates mean companies are aggressively reducing headcount. Insanely high immigration means statistically for every 1 job being created we're importing 1.4 workers. Job vacancies across the economy are down 16.4% yearly change according to ABS. Also according to ABS, Job vacancies, change from February 2020 to May 2024, for IT is an increase of just 1.8%. In summary…
Australia has 1/3rd the population of the UK on a literal continent.
In Ireland we also have a housing crisis, because ironically all of our young construction workers have emigrated to Australia because there's a huge construction boom there. If you restricted immigration you'd have a bigger housing crisis
There was a deleted comment saying that it helps if you learn your domain and bring skills/knowledge aside from just programming. I agree, although I think it also helps if you have a non-CS background relevant to this sort of thing, as it implies some base level of knowledge too. I've met people that have been in one domain for a long time but still don't understand it, so it's not a given. My background is in Physi…
I'm sure down the road that time in finance will probably give her a leg up in finance related tech too. Non tech experience can definitely be a boon
The market is reacting to global events, as we live in an uncertain time after a full and half decade of unprecendented innovation and prosperity. If I understood my parents correctly, this is just the economic cycle. However, the massive global scale pandemic, immediately followed by mass inflation, wars, rapid rise in living cost, anticipation of a massive generation retiring soon etc.. makes everything a bit slower to recover.
Also, due to money suddenly becoming expensive and eternal global downturn as well as political turmoil made businesses clamp down and make-do with whatever they have now until this storm has passed. It will take some time before demands will rise again. Until then, need to find something to continue, like working at a local business or that uncool startup which can't pay SV money and doesn't use the most fancy tech.
Also, there is lack of investment despite apparent(according to new media reportings I read) massive generational wealth transfer. Unlike PG/Elon era, people now use inheritance or windfall towards luxury(instagram) lifestyle instead of investing in ventures.
That all being said, I don't see a lot of problems in my corner of EU. While, my linkedin inbox has been unspammed since 3-6 months now, I haven't heard anything from my circle, except some of my friends looking slowly or taking that desired timeoff/break after their employer dissolved due to lack of funding/runway.
I'm a generalist with 25+ years experience. I'm on the more employable end but I can't command as much salary as a specialist.
I've been moving back into contract work though, which is different than the salary world.
5-9 years is a "bad" spot for developers: devs are too skilled to be cheap or to accept "junior" job & pay, and have not enough experience to be a "jack of all trade" Here, in France, the job market is really slowing. More than before, companies are looking for cheap people... so they let go people with some experience and try to recruit engineer out-of-school to replace them. Obviously it doesn't work really well...…
I do agree that they want cheap people though. They rarely offer me more than 43k (which is ok in france in the region I live in but really not stunning either). I have friends that earn 70k-80k (really good in france) and they get called by headhunters for similar position but for 40k, its silly.
It's pretty brutal here in Australia. Higher interest rates mean companies are aggressively reducing headcount. Insanely high immigration means statistically for every 1 job being created we're importing 1.4 workers. Job vacancies across the economy are down 16.4% yearly change according to ABS. Also according to ABS, Job vacancies, change from February 2020 to May 2024, for IT is an increase of just 1.8%. In summary…
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The sentiment is that right now things are tough and current immigration adds to current pressures.
See Graph 1.1: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/overseas...
Australia has had steady net immigration for quite some time .. that fell in a hole during the pandemic and right now the net intake is much higher than it has ever been - it's the normal intake PLUS the backlog of everybody who didn;t come during lock down.
Australia has always coped with a steady level of intake, right now it's creaking under a much higher level than normal.
It's pretty brutal here in Australia. Higher interest rates mean companies are aggressively reducing headcount. Insanely high immigration means statistically for every 1 job being created we're importing 1.4 workers. Job vacancies across the economy are down 16.4% yearly change according to ABS. Also according to ABS, Job vacancies, change from February 2020 to May 2024, for IT is an increase of just 1.8%. In summary…
This seems like a highly politicised answer Australia has 1/3rd the population of the UK on a literal continent. In Ireland we also have a housing crisis, because ironically all of our young construction workers have emigrated to Australia because there's a huge construction boom there. If you restricted immigration you'd have a bigger housing crisis
See the case study of a housing development of 52 flats that was prohibited because it’d harm the view out of a pub garden.
https://m.independent.ie/business/irish/smithfield-eight-sto...