Unemployed principal software engineer here. This graph is a lie.
Was gonna say I took a pay cut and I’m staying at my current braindead job right now because the market is ass.
The graph is anticipating the future. Not current. Take a couple years off.
My family had just bought a house before I was laid off, and we’re burning through our savings at an alarming rate. If I don’t find a job soon, I’m going to have to liquidate my retirement account. I don’t have years, I have months.
But if you take a couple of years off, won’t it be tough to get back in?
You Can’t Just Buy Them
I can hear the objection, because it’s the obvious one and I’ve made it myself: just hire seniors when you need them. Let the other guy train them. Poach the finished product. It’s cheaper, it’s faster, and it has worked for the entire history of this industry. Right? WRONG.
Here’s why that breaks: everyone is about to have that exact same idea at the exact same time. Every company that quietly decides juniors are too expensive is also quietly deciding to buy its seniors on the open market later.
One might think that companies really ought to be smarter. But the histories of whaling and fishing shows that profit-oriented industries are absolutely capable of completely and irreversibly wrecking their own economical foundations for a few years with a bit of extra profit.
This was written by ai, right?
Stop hiring and mentoring junior engineers and you’ve quietly unplugged the machine that makes senior ones. A few years out, you run dry — right when everyone else is dry too, and the price of the few left goes through the roof.
Written by AI
Didn’t read the article but I love the braindead chart:
The article isn’t much better.
lol this is one way to make sure it doesn’t look like AI wrote your shit.
AI is stupid, but to be truly outstanding at stupidity, you have to be human.
