alt Hacker NewsBetween AI and competing against the world with H-1B, it's really never been harder to get an entry or mid-level software engineering job.
Which means our pipeline to senior engineer is completely broken.
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I think the field is basically over as a long term career unless you are truly exceptional. It will become very easy to build most software, and the upper end will be filled with the top people in the country/from abroad.
Wages are certainly going down for most software roles
For some reason people never mention this, but aren't there also much more people graduating with CS degrees than ever before?
What if the new entry level is what we consider senior today? Isn't it possible today to obtain entry/mid level skills with LLMs? I wonder if things will shift more in that direction.
People have been fretting about 'foreigners' taking their jobs for decades and it never really happened. This is all about LLM's.
I mean, think about it; just a few short years ago there was a very strong market for software engineers, despite outsourcing and immigration being very much part of the landscape.
There are 100K H1-Bs a year and 4 million grads a year in the US. Anyone who thinks H1-Bs are actually contributing to their inability to find a job is a moron.
Fascinating how using immigrants as a scapegoat penetrates people minds so easily at all levels of society and education.