Intel's Adding Another 15k Surplus Experienced Software Engineers & Programmers To the Market

So if you graduated from Stanford, the market seems great. If you are considering senior top tier tech companies, the market seems pretty good. It's not going to improve for bootcamp grads unfortunately until we see what happens with AI. The market right now is looking for top 50% engineers (illustrative number, not a fact), like good CS grads and experienced engineers who have done pretty good on the job. AI is going to create a lot of jobs but unclear yet what they will be. I'm very nervous about bootcamps like BloomTech, Codesmith, and others focusing so much on generative AI skills. These are skills that we see in headlines, but talk to hiring managers at top tech companies and no one knows what AI-skills they will be looking for. These companies have super consistent and careful hiring processes and they will over a couple years operationalize for AI and the skills they look for. **OpenAI has hired three employees from my company and they weren't tested on AI at all to be hired!!! They also all had 10+ years of experience and were extremely high performers.** But any bootcamp claiming to prepare you for AI jobs now has no idea what they are talking about and it might be a desperate cash grab to buy time and stay alive. My personal prediction is that we'll see most bootcamps disappear this year. Then starting at the middle or end of next year we'll bootcamps come back with specific tracks like "AI Marketing", "AI Law", "AI Prompt Engineering", where people from these backgrounds can learn AI to improve their standing on their current jobs but NOT BECOME SOFTWARE ENGINEERS. I think the path to SWE will become more and more a thing like Medicine and Law, it's something you spend many years working towards. Either you spend all your schooling doing it and become a SWE when you graduate, or you dabble around for a bit and spend a few years getting your SWE "masters" or equivalent specialization, and become a SWE.