u/SlowestTriathlete wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I think they're past getting desperate. They are 100% desperate and I think they waited too long to take corrective measures. I was there in the latter half of 2021 and things were already starting to turn south and nobody would acknowledge it.
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I don't know what they told you when you graduated but they are telling new grads that they have "2 to 4 years of functional experience" so they can put that in applications and their resume.
From the materials I've seen, the changes seem irrelevant to getting a job right now.
A couple of people have Gen AI related jobs but most people are getting SWE jobs with zero AI, followed by tangential jobs, like support engineering and technical writers.
If the market rebounds enough for people to get jobs, I'm curious to see if they stay the course with the "modern engineer" or just double down on classic Codesmith techniques.
So I'm not even convinced the changes they made are correcting anything, but I could be wrong, I'm going off my corner of the market. Maybe Mavis Tire will hire a ton of modern engineers while FAANG keeps doing its same old same old.