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The demise of software engineering jobs has been greatly exaggerated
- OrderlyTiamat 6mo agoThat's hackertyper in that screenshot, god that takes me back.
- tim-tday 6mo agoExcept that several hundred thousand software engineers have been laid off in the last couple years. And many of them find it impossible to find a new job. And software engineering roles receive thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of applicants.
- kittikitti 6mo agoAlthough the reality is different from the projections, the emotional impact is severe. I sense an incredible amount of demoralized colleagues who are further dismayed from the arrogant public who are largely condescending about their skills and professions. If things recover, it will bring with it plenty of battle scars.
- Ancalagon 6mo agoWhat I'm seeing is an explosion in software jobs at the small-company size level, with larger companies mostly holding steady (sans a few exceptions like Block and Oracle), as I've seen from: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/number-of-employees https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/number.... The jobs are out there in my opinion for a competent engineer with decent AI experience (not going to comment on new grads or very high level principal+ engs, because I am neither).
- pants2 6mo agoI do think you're right, custom software is now more viable for small companies, you'll see a lot of them hiring a SWE or two to build out custom tooling whereas before it didn't make financial sense since it needed a whole team.
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