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New grads don't have people skills. They're pushed harder into CS than ever. Humanities goes right out the window. Programming is significantly decreasing comp
by devwastaken 3y ago
New grads don't have people skills. They're pushed harder into CS than ever. Humanities goes right out the window.
Programming is significantly decreasing compensation, the market is full. Faang represents a small number of devs.
The reason they want young workers is because they're naive and will do bad things out of arrogance to the harms.
- gemstones 3y agoSure they do! New grads absolutely have people skills. They make silly workplace norms mistakes too, but they generally aren’t clueless about how to get along with people like you see in a lot of programmers from earlier generations.
- jeo123 3y agoPeople skills arent exactly JUST get along with people. That would make Steve Jobs absolute failure in people skill in that niche criteria. He was genius at people skill in area like motivation and business negotiations. Vast majority grads have terrible people skill (40yrs in HR attest to that). Things like ghosting and quiet quitting and ultra job hopping are a thing with gen z and gen millenium. It is extremely rare in gen x and earlier.
- carbotaniuman 3y agoIt would be great if the companies who complained about ghosting and quite quoting quit ghosting and constructive dismissal, but the world isn't all perfect sadly.
- devwastaken 3y agoPerhaps grads from before 2012 years ago before everything took to the net and compsci was pushed harder. People are growing up on the internet legitimately believing that Twitter and Reddit are how you communicate with people.
- xboxnolifes 3y agoHumanities don't teach you people skills. They teach you about people.
- devwastaken 3y agoYes, which you need to have people skills without coming off as a sociopath when what you say and do don't align.
- xboxnolifes 3y agoNo you don't. Humanities tend to have little to nothing to do with typical social skills.