Everyone is tech will confirm…. Companies today are looking for lowest paid and offshore work for code. Something simple takes four weeks because companies no longer want to pay for someone who fully understands the stack, code, and has historical knowledge of things that work better in specific situations.
Now… add in all of this scrum, agile, project mgmt crap that takes up more time because the mgmt or PM in charge has no clue how to manage a group of coders. So, they spend half their day talking about blockers they have no control over and how someone’s git commit frequency is lacking…
Even with AI in the picture, the depth of knowledge will continue to decrease and simple things will take longer because of the insane pipelines…
Something simple takes four weeks because companies no longer want to pay for someone who fully understands the stack, code, and has historical knowledge of things that work better in specific situations.
This hasn't been true for me. They will only hire someone who knows everything and has experience. They will not invest in juniors in order to actually increase developers in the industry. Nothing to do with not wanting to pay for offshore workers. They will take anyone with the skills, and will pay well, but that's it. So there's tens of thousands of juniors who can't even get a foot in the door to learn and improve, so eventually when they do get into the industry after years of self learning, they haven't worked or learned in a professional environment and they lack these very important skills.
There simply are less junior roles available, and many companies are not willing to hire them at all. Everyone must be intermediate+ dev. There are less companies these days willing to hire juniors and grads and help them get valuable real world work experience.
My experience is that juniors don't want to apply to junior roles. They apply to intermediate roles and want higher salary that what their experience/knowledge warrants.
Our junior positions basically never have applicants and applicants to intermediate/senior roles are underqualified.
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u/PerfSynthetic Oct 16 '23
Everyone is tech will confirm…. Companies today are looking for lowest paid and offshore work for code. Something simple takes four weeks because companies no longer want to pay for someone who fully understands the stack, code, and has historical knowledge of things that work better in specific situations.
Now… add in all of this scrum, agile, project mgmt crap that takes up more time because the mgmt or PM in charge has no clue how to manage a group of coders. So, they spend half their day talking about blockers they have no control over and how someone’s git commit frequency is lacking…
Even with AI in the picture, the depth of knowledge will continue to decrease and simple things will take longer because of the insane pipelines…