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Jobs and Software Is Fucked
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I’m a senior lead at a big (not tech) company and have had multiple people change jobs in the past few months for much better offers. I’ve had two places try to hire me in the past six months. Things were down for a bit with the rise of AI (I’d imagine a “wait and see” approach) but I’m personally seeing a lot of people trying to recruit now.
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Finally, someone talking sense! Personally I first evaluate all of my potential employees by how clean they can lick my boots.
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It's at least satisfying these company owners are feeling the squeeze of the end of ZIRP. Soon they'll realize that not only are there "hundreds of employees" vying for jobs but also hundreds of companies vying for customers, and the approach of picking the meekest mice to fill the slot means their application for a customer ends up in the shit-pile against one of the other 200 companies applying for a customer with…
I don't disagree with you. I've been saying for years here that we might see an increase in software engineering demand. There will be many more companies employing software engineers but companies won't need hundreds/thousands of engineers anymore.
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> No him/her.
Uh. What?
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#16The job market to be honest has been very fucked. To me a lot of this sounds like people experiencing how terrible tech hiring has become for the first time after being in a stable job for a long time. Almost everything the Author said, was something I’ve experienced when I was laid off in the 2022-2023 wave of layoffs. At the time I was told “it was a skill issue”.
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#17It's not like the job market was that much better before AI infested every single corner of the market, but it supercharged all of the worst aspects of everything. I've seen people supposedly smarter than I advocate for just giving in, conceding to AI coding as it's the future. But doing so means tossing out my friends who make art or the people who work their asses off to properly test and review code or the writers pouring all of their energy into even mundane dialogue. It means throwing out my dignity as a software engineer, as someone that truly gives a shit about security and code.
Don't let yourself get attached to any tech stack you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner. That's the discipline.
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#18> when I need to recall off the top of my head the proper way to instantiate a list or heap in X language You only need to know for one though...
It was an example.
I guess even an off hand example, now must be completely 100% technically correct , or you aren't worth a job?
And, I'm pretty sure in "X" language, you can call them differently. Since it is "X", how do you know.
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Forming unions is not the same as walking out based on some media propaganda.
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That’s right! Buckle down and lick boot like a proper young republican!
I appreciate this sentiment and I think it's sad to sacrifice rights for money... but you know, sometimes you need money.
If unions were stronger and the government was more populist, etc., (speaking of the US), maybe this choice could have been headed off better... but it's too late for that this cycle.