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as a graduate, you'd be extremely lucky to have any job at all, let alone a job at a tech company, let alone one as well known as Lyft. Let's face it, with the
by thorwasdfasdf 6y ago
as a graduate, you'd be extremely lucky to have any job at all, let alone a job at a tech company, let alone one as well known as Lyft. Let's face it, with the current vast oversupply of labor, employers have a lot more bargaining power.
Back in my day, after the Tech bubble burst, I was a coder with little experience, and I worked for any start up that would let me, just so i could get more experience. One place, I got paid 0$, with just a thank you and a slice of pizza (1 slice, not 2).
- thelean12 6y agoOnce you have a big name on your resume, you'll get all the interviews you want when you go to look for a full time job. I'm not sure if Lyft is a big enough name, but I know having Google or Facebook on your resume as an intern is enough to have your choice in full time jobs as long as you can pass interviews. Lyft will get hurt big time from this when these interns go to find full time jobs.
- ianlevesque 6y agoAnd it was uphill in the snow, both ways!
- doingmyting 6y agoHad it lasted longer with every commute being uphill, OP would have ended up atop Mount Everest in short order
- munk-a 6y agoMost software companies aren't hurting - especially those still in the startup phase that may have 0 revenue today but also had 0 revenue before the pandemic. Additionally, the job market is already insanely skewed toward employers with extremely weak unionizing laws throughout most of the US - while the software market is more balanced than most other markets the value extracted form employees still far outweighs their compensation. Employees should value their time and labour and I'm sorry you decided to work for no money since, either your labour was worthless or someone made free money off your back.
- thorwasdfasdf 6y agowell, at the time, worthless labor was all there was, especially if you had less than 3 years experience. It was a different time. You had senior software engineers commiting suicide because they couldn't ever imagine getting work again. for people in tech, it was truely a hopeless time. i think a lot of young people haven't ever experienced that, and assume that the "more balanced than most other markets" conditions will continue in the tech industry forever. But, there's nothing that says it needs to continue. There's no regulations in place that prevent more and more workers from entering the software industry (unlike say doctors who have regulations in place to prevent more medical students than a certain number each year). So, in SE, over the next decade, the supply of workers can continue to increase more and more
- empath75 6y agoTech companies aren’t about to hire Joe Bartender from the local Hooters. There’s not a massive pool of unemployed software engineers out there quite yet.