| ▲ | dauertewigkeit 2 hours ago |
| For some reason people never mention this, but aren't there also much more people graduating with CS degrees than ever before? |
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| ▲ | WarmWash 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Pretty much no other engineering field made sense to go into for about a decade. Even kids who did go EE, Mech E, or even Chem E ended up taking software jobs. The pay, benefits, and work/life balance of SWE just absolutely obliterates everything else. Or did at least |
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| ▲ | doctorwho42 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And how do you think people go from fresh graduates to senior devs? |
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| ▲ | whateveracct 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Degrees take 4 years. It's a very laggy indicator. |
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| ▲ | francisofascii 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Right. CS Enrollments dropped 8% this year. High schoolers got the message. | |
| ▲ | AnimalMuppet 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | People can switch majors. But despite me saying that, I think it's going to take longer than four years. It takes a while for people to realize that a dream is dead. | | |
| ▲ | nwatson an hour ago | parent [-] | | Some companies hire junior devs to adopt AI-first practices to then drag their seniors in the same direction. | | |
| ▲ | pydry an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | This is a reliable recipe for turning your systems into an absolute clusterfuck. | | | |
| ▲ | AnimalMuppet an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Juniors to push the accelerator, seniors to pump the brakes. It could work. |
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