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Pay peanuts, get monkeys. AI hasn't changed that equation, so if they think that a grad will accept negative pay and come out the other end skilled, they are on crack.
Businesses have always paid to upskill young employees, its a cost of being an employer.
then businesses decide to save money, by not hiring fresh grads, and expecting years of experience up front.
They used to, until many realized that there's no reason to train fresh grads if you can just poach then from another company after they've been trained for a while and if you train your own, they will get poached similarly by someone who wants to skip the training. They've been treating it as a zero sum game.
Increasingly few companies will hire fresh grads now. Naturally, that causes a shortage in people with experience. Not to worry, they're now complaining about the lack of potential employees with experience and demanding the government to invest money in advertising our country to third world devs and to let them hire foreigners more easily instead of having to look for people here first. So now part of my tax money goes to an initiative to make sure companies can keep not training young devs.
This had been brewing for years now and I'm disgusted.
it was the law of diminishing returns, its the same for bio/biotech. they wanted experienced grads by graduation time, so if you are unable to get into a lab before. your chances are low. employers trying to save money by not "training a entry level/junior" and expecting them already have years of experience upfront. worst now its skewed heavily(rfor bio) gender wise.
The problem though is that AI reduces the number of places to work at which will increase the competition between applicants. If some employers start doing this there will be applicants that will pay to get ahead. How big of an issue this becomes depends on how big of a competition AI will place on job seekers.
I don't think AI changes that balance all that dramatically. Any business that won't hire juniors now, wouldn't have hired them before, and simply had the "Must have 20+ years experience in [flavour of the month] framework" in their job ads.
And experience from past jobs hasn't really counted for anything beyond "They werent stupid enough to get fired", so paying for experience doesn't make sense either.
All that said, regardless of who has the better crystal ball, its a shit time to be a compsci grad...
hasnt CS majors had low job prospects for a decade+ already, even back then there were talks on other forums how they cant find jobs.
The dude who made Stardew Valley started it as a project in between job interviews after he graduated with a CS degree in 2011. He ended up just finishing Stardew Valley before he got a job…