The whole industry is fucked. I had a job lined up before I even graduated back in 2015. Held it strong for nearly a decade and moved up to a senior dev role before the company made a huge shift and decided to split our team up, moving half of us to a new product with a completely different tech stack and workflow and 0 training. Went about as well as expected, and all of us from my old team got let go with absolutely no warning as a result. Apparently these days they’re 100% focused on genAI garbage so even though it’s been a few years I’m excited to check glassdoor when that bubble finally bursts.
Trying to get back into dev was a nightmare too. Absurd leetcode puzzles with no practical value, interviewers who clearly had no idea what they were talking about but had the confidence of a politician, AI bullshit everywhere, the works - all while being bombarded with news about constant layoffs at nearly every company in the industry.
I ended up taking an IT support role for half my old salary instead because I just could not be fucked to deal with the state of this industry today. It went to hell SO fast. I don’t know of a single recent graduate who had a job lined up out the the door like almost my entire graduating class did, and no one I know who’s been laid off or let go has gotten back into similar positions at all.
I don’t know of a single recent graduate who had a job lined up out the the door like almost my entire graduating class did
i remember back in the late 2010s software dev was pushed like hell to anyone who was listening. “oh yea bro if you go into compsci you’ll get six figures right out of the gate bro don’t worry about the competition bro” and at the time it was true. when i graduated the bubble was in the middle of popping so i was still fine. nowadays things have gotten so bad that you’ll be lucky to get a dead end IT job after 200 applications. obviously the field will never fully disappear but i expect it to shrink significantly before it gets any better.
Yeppp I fell right into it during that timeframe. In retrospect I should’ve gone into IT from the beginning and went for like a sysadmin role somewhere, that’s much more aligned with my interests anyway. If I wanted to stick with dev work I should’ve left that company ages ago to move somewhere more modern instead of building my entire skillset off an ancient outdated monolith.
yeah i have a friend who was (at the time) undiagnosedly majorly depressed, so he just idly floated along when his family pushed him into compsci for the money. he struggled through a degree he hated in a topic he wasn’t passionate about to wind up in an industry that can’t even employ him. i know a lot of compsci grads. shits bleak
The whole industry is fucked. I had a job lined up before I even graduated back in 2015. Held it strong for nearly a decade and moved up to a senior dev role before the company made a huge shift and decided to split our team up, moving half of us to a new product with a completely different tech stack and workflow and 0 training. Went about as well as expected, and all of us from my old team got let go with absolutely no warning as a result. Apparently these days they’re 100% focused on genAI garbage so even though it’s been a few years I’m excited to check glassdoor when that bubble finally bursts.
Trying to get back into dev was a nightmare too. Absurd leetcode puzzles with no practical value, interviewers who clearly had no idea what they were talking about but had the confidence of a politician, AI bullshit everywhere, the works - all while being bombarded with news about constant layoffs at nearly every company in the industry.
I ended up taking an IT support role for half my old salary instead because I just could not be fucked to deal with the state of this industry today. It went to hell SO fast. I don’t know of a single recent graduate who had a job lined up out the the door like almost my entire graduating class did, and no one I know who’s been laid off or let go has gotten back into similar positions at all.
i remember back in the late 2010s software dev was pushed like hell to anyone who was listening. “oh yea bro if you go into compsci you’ll get six figures right out of the gate bro don’t worry about the competition bro” and at the time it was true. when i graduated the bubble was in the middle of popping so i was still fine. nowadays things have gotten so bad that you’ll be lucky to get a dead end IT job after 200 applications. obviously the field will never fully disappear but i expect it to shrink significantly before it gets any better.
Yeppp I fell right into it during that timeframe. In retrospect I should’ve gone into IT from the beginning and went for like a sysadmin role somewhere, that’s much more aligned with my interests anyway. If I wanted to stick with dev work I should’ve left that company ages ago to move somewhere more modern instead of building my entire skillset off an ancient outdated monolith.
yeah i have a friend who was (at the time) undiagnosedly majorly depressed, so he just idly floated along when his family pushed him into compsci for the money. he struggled through a degree he hated in a topic he wasn’t passionate about to wind up in an industry that can’t even employ him. i know a lot of compsci grads. shits bleak
Oh hey was that me?
(No it was not because I went “fuck this shit is boring” and switched to painting my junior year).