Goddamn
Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary
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Kingofthereal
King of kings
Bet, I’m asking cause I’m in a boot camp that’s 12 weeks, they only certs they give CompTIA A+ and Google IT Support Professional Certificate. From my understanding those are very entry level. I’m trying to find something that’ll give me a better start besides just those two certs.
IIVI
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Man, been saying this for the last two years on here. ABET now accrediting and approving international schools was a tough death blow for American degree holders. There’s now too much competition.
Companies no longer favor Americans, American schools favor international schools just as much, etc.
I’m actually fine with that. However, stop charging us $80k to go to school only to walk away with a degree that’ll get binned vs International schools, where many students get education for free.
My biggest gripe is how expensive school is combined with the fact the degree doesn’t mean as much vs the world anymore. We shouldn’t have to pay premium prices unless you go to a Caltech or some top 10 school. I paid over $500/unit recently for one of my Engineering courses. fukking wild. I heard it was about $6k/quarter at UC Irvine, these are in-state prices. fukking wild. By the way, not a single one of my classmates got an internship and they’re graduating, some have already graduated.
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A Record-Breaking 1,582,808 Foreign Students in 2024
Huge jump in STEM work authorization
A Record-Breaking 1,582,808 Foreign Students in 2024
New data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shows that there were nearly 1.6 million foreign students in the United Sates in 2024.
cis.org
Foreign Student Trends
1,582,808 active F-1 and M-1 student records in calendar year 2024 — a 5.3 percent increase from 2023, and more than the population of Philadelphia.
The percentage of foreign students increased in all regions of the United States, with the largest growth in the South — an 8.5 percent increase, following a 13.4 percent increase in 2023.
India continued to be the leading source of foreign students, with 422,335 student records — an 11.8 percent increase from 2023, following a 27.1 percent increase in 2022.
China accounted for the second-largest number of foreign students, with 329,541 student records— a small decrease of 0.25 percent compared to 2023, when there was a 1.9 percent increase.
With the overhired argument what were all these people doing precovid
Mirin4rmfar
Superstar
Maybe because there was a huge boost into getting people into tech, lots of boot camps etc. and programs so the market was getting pumped with talent. Also could be because the interest rates were low, easier to borrow money etc. but then again companies are making record profit.
Mirin4rmfar
Superstar
loving this work life balance, unplugging after 5 PM and not touching my lap top until the next day 8:00 AM...wow!
I don't think Bootcamps + New Grads produced the sheer number of people that the numbers inflated to. I do remember the Bootcamp Scam hustle though.
Anyone ever work at a startup what are some red flags to peep for?
IIVI
Superstar
That definitely was a big part of it, but even before then CS was seen as the easier degree: below Civil Engineering and above Industrial Engineering.
When Meta, Netflix, Google started showing the salaries everyone left all those other majors. Civil Engineering for example was basically empty of new grads compared to previous years.
People were thinking why get a harder degree to get paid less and have less work-life balance.
IIVI
Superstar
Mainly long hours. Some will work you into the ground and you’re expected to do a little of everything.
yeah lol after the convo the scope is way larger and equity concept seems undecided so seems best to ask for more Base. Also seems like an opportunity to renegotiate the title of possible. Only had a screening but the convo was good, but having come from huge companies the back of my mind is the Start up horror stories of randomly showing up and y'all out of business. This is a Seed Stage Start up but expanding their NA Presence
I always heard Civl was the easiest Engineering degree. There was the wave of everyone saying "just learn to code" from 2012-2018, but did it really produce enough bodies where even the Major Tech Companies exploded size wise? Usually those bootcamp people and "regular" CS Grads were ending up at Start Ups and Mid Seize or Non Tech companies. I remember that period of 2014-2018 where everyone and their mama was a start up founder and there was the whole VC Influencer Hustle.
Your job title wont matter. You'll do everything.
A lot of the head count build up was not in technical roles.
