It's a lot easier to institute a "we only hire seniors" policy when the market is flooded with ex-FAANG seniors who are willing to take a lower salary than previously due to all of the competition for jobs
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Tech Layoffs Impact Junior Hiring Market Competition
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I will suspect that the man reason junior hiring dropped in the last three years is that Google/Microsoft/Meta etc laid off hundreds of thousands of qualified seniors, which meant juniors were losing out to seniors in the job market
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Developer Onboarding Challenges: Internship Productivity Issues
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Still better than interns who spend a quarter of their internship figuring out their development environment and the rest of it working on maybe one issue a week Onboarding at a new company is hard enough for experienced developers!
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GitHub Reportedly Increasing Intern Headcount Plans
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I think I've heard GitHub talking about this but I don't have a formal link about them actively increasing their intern headcount yet
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Shopify VP Engineering Plans Massive 1000 Intern Hiring Initiative
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Shopify VP Engineering @fnthawar talks about hiring 1,000 interns in this interview with @GergelyOrosz here, at 32:50
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AI Tools Multiply Employee Contributions Without Replacing Workforce
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Here's the Cloudflare announcement about this: "AI tools […] are not replacements for new hires — but ways to multiply how new hires can contribute to a team."
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AI-Powered Interns Boost Tech Company Hiring Strategies
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I heard that Shopify and Cloudflare are both increasing their intern intake this year because an intern armed with AI tools can produce value a whole lot faster than interns in previous years Any other companies doing this?
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AI Threatens White-Collar Work, Young Americans Choose Blue-Collar Careers
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As #AI threatens white-collar work, more young Americans choose blue-collar careers #RiseoftheRobots https://
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Accenture exits 11,000 staff unable to retrain for AI age
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As growth softens, expect more “AI is taking our jobs” headlines. Accenture says it will exit about 11,000 people – described as staff who “cannot be retrained for the age of AI.” The cause is uncertain, but the scale isn’t: since 2020, Accenture has added ~273,000 roles (+54%).
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AI Targets Overpaid Consultant Bullshit Jobs First
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Comme prévu : l'IA s'attaque en premier aux bullshit jobs chez les cadres surpayés (les consultants en sont les plus grands représentants)