u/frenchydev1 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Your question: "how are they supposed to pay this back if they don't end up getting a software engineering job at the end?" 1. How are you supposed to pay back any education? Looking back on what I paid for mine it was a long term investment (one I'm still paying back years late
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Lots of interesting back and forth here, just wanted to chime in. I'm not sure who you are but these are Codesmith's talking points so apologies if I sound like a broken record - I strongly disagree with Codesmith's narrative about "the modern software engineer" and I think it's being made up to highlight non-SWE and non-tech placements as the future instead of because the people can't get entry level SWE jobs in this market.
1. It's really not a given that interest rates will drop and they won't drop THAT much. Like going from 5.25% to 5% isn't going to trigger all this dry powder to get dumped.
2. This is why you want a really good top tier tech job from day 1 if you can get it, improving a button is shortsighted and not thinking about your 30 year career: [https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/comments/1cz4pal/comment/l5e8600/](https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/comments/1cz4pal/comment/l5e8600/)
3. Where are the stats that climate tech and health tech are hiring SWEs like crazy right now? This [Galvanize report ](https://www.galvanize.com/blog/companies-across-industries-hiring-software-engineers/)suggests Healthcare is equal to Construction and Manufacturing and Climate isn't even mentioned.
Again apologies if you aren't Codesmith - Codesmith's CEO is just making up all a whole narrative about the entire industry that's full of holes but fits Codesmith's own outcomes - which do not represent the whole industry.