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My son graduated with honors with electrical and computer engineering degrees in 2023. He can not get an interview, let alone a job. Any white male he knew in college can't get jobs either. Many are currently working in data center jobs that don't require their education.
— DRG (@suspended1233) December 25, 2024
This guy isn't wrong, however there are a lot of r-slurs I have to deal with applying and interviewing for these jobs. I'm eternally grateful that I graduated before COVID-19.
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As someone who spent most of 2024 unemployed, I'll say that the job market
as a whole is pretty 
fricked and it's exceptionally hard to get a job. This is true for many different 
fields. My sister 
is an accountant and many of her friends 
who are qualified Charted Accountants are also struggling to get jobs From watching 
videos on the topic, it's also clear that STEM jobs that once required a bachelors are now requiring a Masters due to how competitive the market 
is.
With that said, I think
a lot of young 
people don't know how to apply for a job. Going 
on LinkedIn and taking the shotgun 
approach and sending 100s of applications does NOT work, and it's an incredible 
waste 
of time if you're sending out a shitty 
CV each time. I'd guess 
A LOT of those people complaining that they can't get jobs would 
get a job in 3 months or less if they got help with their CV and were taught how to ace an interview. I was only able to get a job once I had tons of help with those things.
Formerly Chuck's.
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I've read just the first sentence so I might be off with my comment. Have a friend who has a decade of python experience who doesn't 9 months out of work, 2024 was rough in some branches of it
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Yep, my company has laid off over 90% of the tech workers this year. This isn't a company in financial distress. The tech career bubble has burst.
It's only confirmed what everyone already suspected. A team of 4 seniors can produce better results than a team of 4 seniors, 3 juniors, a scrum master, a product owner, 2 managers, 2 UX, 2 QA and 3 office dogs.
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DON'T FIRE THE DOG
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I'm happy I never took the devpill and stuck to operations. I'm a computer janitor, nobody will fire me cause I know how to fix the actual business critical shit when it comes down. Every couple of years the job title will change to Sysop, DevOps, systems engineer, computer BIPOC etc. as new methodologies come out - don't care. Keep me paid and I'll keep using shell scripts and shell scripts disguised as revolutionary new inventions so Linda can make payroll.
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As opposed to the non-agile way of dumping projects with no documentation onto unsuspecting teams
Tbh the one advantage of the DevOps hubbub is the push for version control outside of traditional dev work, I'm willing to praise it for that alone
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I just want to be able to push to prod directly without having to call Rakesh and remote control his PC to hit the buttons
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Tell me more about that promotion path, that sounds horrifying
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Worked at a big tech company where the only "people" with prod deploy permissions were clueless vendors with some meaningless certifications. They had no idea what they were doing so during a prod incident I literally just told the SRE to give me mouse control over teams so I could perform the needful.
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idk i literally just got a job doing that
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Sure but you're not an
English major 
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But that's in
your economy is shit and is getting worse most of the time
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It's not shotgun
until your applications are at least a 1000 imo
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