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The market for junior dev is even worse, imagine being fresh out of college in a market with 100,000 freshly laid off mid-staff level engineers
by ericmcer 4y ago
The market for junior dev is even worse, imagine being fresh out of college in a market with 100,000 freshly laid off mid-staff level engineers
- whymauri 4y agoThe junior dev market has been terrible since the COVID lockdown.
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoRemote is hard to make work with juniors, unfortunately.
- icedchai 4y agoTell me about it. I don't mind helping someone, but when they don't pay attention the first time and I have to have the same exact meeting again, it's kind of a bother.
- Haegin 4y agoWe've had some success with recording meetings and using automated transcriptions, though we don't have any fresh out of college juniors now.
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoMy current place does that, but we still don't really hire juniors so who knows if it works.
- hughesjj 4y agoIt was pretty shitty in the late 2000s/early 2010s IIRC.
- whstl 4y agoThat's true, however I've been seeing complaints for a little longer than that. Perhaps in FAANG they were hiring, but in general I remember seeing a lot of junior devs (not from elite colleges) commenting about how they applied for 50 positions sometimes during COVID. Something unthinkable in my time.
- hughesjj 4y agoeh, this was life foe me in rhe eaely 2010s too. Super hard to get into a good spot back then.