Probably depends on the location. I'm in Toronto, Canada and pre-pandemic anything that moved got a job, even without a degree. That continued till 2022-23 till the mass layoffs started. In a broadar sense however this is similar to the outsourcing wave in the late 2000s to mid 2010s. For many who graduated after 2015 it is a new experience.

COmpsci, is probably the worst of the stem majors, aside from physics which has higher rate of Unemployment. biotech/bio(not health) was always bad because of how limited they hire for most of the jobs.

If that's the article I think it is, it's almost all entirely charity/NGO work, and it also excludes analysis of the current job market which could be hitting younger workers the same.

I definitely think ageism is a real factor, 100%, but pointing to a series of anecdotes inside one industry is about the worst possible way to demonstrate it.

I graduated in 2022 with an MSc ComSci and have been without a job since new year. I think my ghost rate on applications have been around 60-70%. And let's not even talk about how few job posts there are in the first place...

The few I do hear from replies "what an amazing resume! We have though decided to continue with other applicants." Number of first interviews: 1. Number of second interviews: 0. Number of applications: I lost count.

Yeah, all the tech jobs dried up where I'm at. If one pops up it is a help desk position.

When I applied to one those help desk position the hr person asked me why are you applying to a job underneath you?

I have 10 years working as a Software Engineer that did mostly ETL tasks

"allow me to explain this quarters earnings in interpretive dance."

yes, but it's systematically undervalued because stupid people don't understand how powerful soft skills are and think all that matter is hard skills.

but statistically most liberal art grads do very well later in life, even if they don't make as much starting out.

And it doesn't even have to make anyone more productive, it just has to convince leadership they can get by with less in the short term.

For the compsci industries at least, it's a productivity boost with moderate to extreme consequences in the middle to long term.

Not that that is a problem for CEO's and companies that work quarter to quarter, but it will be a problem in 5-10 years when they have no senior workers to pick up/fix the problems that LLM's introduce.

Or for the particularly dim-witted few in the short term who throw money at a problem they don't understand while ignoring the people they are paying to advise them, thinking they can remove the "unpredictable" human element.

Unless, of course, the LLM's improve so much in the runway each company has left, so as to eliminate these issues, i think it unlikely, but we'll see.

Almost like there's trend there.

gen alpha. gen z had it so easy. they could get a hit of smack for just one blowjob.