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you can be critical without being abraisive or demeaning about it. a professional opinion includes some professionalism
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Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
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Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
#22I'm not sure I understand the logic that we wouldn't hire Juniors because now we have AI. What jobs are Juniors doing that AI can now do? I don't get juniors to build me entire web sites or implement complicated agentic pieces of work. Most of the time, we hire Juniors to help fill the talent pool with the hope that they will be productive in a few months. If we think that we don't need to refill the pool now because…
I guess a lot of this depends on whether you consider juniors to be part of your talent pool. Unless you are retaining them, it is just subsidizing industry at large to train them.
I stayed less than a year at my first two jobs. They bet wrong.
Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
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you can be critical without being abraisive or demeaning about it. a professional opinion includes some professionalism
Are we worried about offending the machine?
No, we're worried about contributing to a hostile environment for people who have nothing to do with this complaint. To illustrate: replace the slur with a racial or sexist one, and see how it reads. If you want to insult people, take the time to come up with a relevant insult: don't just fire your gun into the air.
Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
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Are we worried about offending the machine?
No, we're worried about contributing to a hostile environment for people who have nothing to do with this complaint. To illustrate: replace the slur with a racial or sexist one, and see how it reads. If you want to insult people, take the time to come up with a relevant insult: don't just fire your gun into the air.
I didn't say anything racist or sexist. I'm mocking stupid people who are sucking up all the air in the room.
Fuck these AI retards.
Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
#25There’s an irony too, in that junior engineers are more likely to understand and use AI tools, and quickly become more performant than their senior engineers asking questions on stack overflow. It’s what’s happening at my company and it feels silly since certain projects are way behind and constantly hiring because the very senior lead refuses to use AI
Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
#26I'm not sure I understand the logic that we wouldn't hire Juniors because now we have AI. What jobs are Juniors doing that AI can now do? I don't get juniors to build me entire web sites or implement complicated agentic pieces of work. Most of the time, we hire Juniors to help fill the talent pool with the hope that they will be productive in a few months. If we think that we don't need to refill the pool now because…
You’re in a whirlwind of propaganda at the moment. The talking points and takes are mostly planted. Even the title has an inner circle nod to it.
what does this mean? can you explain? legit question not rhetorical
Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
#27very hard for junior engineers out there now.
There are too many new grads and the quality bar outside of target programs has dropped nor never existed to begin with. And the target programs graduate around 15-20k EECS adjacent majors a year. It's hard to justify hiring a (choosing random college) CS@Ouachita Baptist University grad for $140K TC (50th percentile for an entry level SWE) or even $100K TC [0] (25th percentile for an entry level SWE) unless they are…
Well, this is the thing. I was talking to someone a few days back, someone in Academia, and the conversation around the table was about how can we make it so we don't have to resort to increasingly more sophisticated ways to surveil students so they don't AI slop their entire degrees.
The problem is that universities, seemingly on a global scale, decided to run on economic incentives instead of academic ones. There are way too many people just doing degrees they have no interesting in learning about because university is just a way to a better job, and guess what, that "better job" no longer exists... and yet, year after year we have more and more people that have no clue what their credentials claim they should know by heart.
Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
#28Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
#29Hiring seniors is a waste of money. You need someone who knows enough to drive LLMs, but not too much more. The LLMs are good enough to do the debugging, the coding, and a big part of the design work and system architecture. Most of the work today is manual testing and feeding the bugs back into the LLMs.
Is this a poorly instructed llm? Or a poorly constructed thought?
It's lived experience. My management is a lot happier when I move too fast to really pay attention to the problems and use my expertise, and the output is good enough that nobody really complains. Building most software is no longer skilled work; it takes minimal training. The industry just hasn't caught up yet.
Re: Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
#30There’s an irony too, in that junior engineers are more likely to understand and use AI tools, and quickly become more performant than their senior engineers asking questions on stack overflow. It’s what’s happening at my company and it feels silly since certain projects are way behind and constantly hiring because the very senior lead refuses to use AI
Seniors don’t use SO anymore, it virtually died if you look at traffic. The reason the market is so tough for juniors isn’t because seniors are bad at chat or agent workflows, it’s quite the opposite of what you say.