Tend to agree. NYT's tech coverage especially can be pretty dire, not just on stuff like this but on crypto, too. Credit to the author/editor, though, for mentioning jobs elsewhere in IT are still in demand, halfway down the story.
Totally. And when the coverage on tech is this way it practically degenerates into tabloid journalism. It’s not even useful journalism. It’s just clickbait entertainment for dorks that enjoy reading about the doom of tech.
That's the truth of it. The sad thing is, there's probably a bigger market among NYT readers for more nuanced tech coverage than editors assume. Instead, there's a hierarchy of publications where these stories filter down, from the trade mags and review journals through to places like Wired, then finally to the big papers/mags. By the time the story gets there, though, it's lost all flavour.
Is this actually a concern amid a global IT skills shortage? Get the impression that this seems to be mainly gifted students having less of a chance of getting their dream job.
And it is not "gifted" per se, but well-guided, and serious students.
The demand for a truly skilled exceptional engineer will always remain, even in FAANG, even now.
The demand for mid-rung IT workers will also remain.
The first case study mentions a student who taught younger students in HS, interned at MS during the same, and interned at Meta during college. These are all-checkbox-ticking serious students. I wouldn’t be so keen on the true talent of such student.
Maybe they will be forced to take mid-rung IT jobs, and the people suited for there, would go downwards.
The lowest rung would be the sufferer and loser in this scenario. Much of their job will be replaced by no-code tools in the short-term, and automation in the long-term.
The lowest jobs in IT will surely be wiped out, and it has already began ~decade ago. The pace will only increase.
I think the most enraging thing is that the article is using the term “computer science” graduate as a label for all tech workers.
If you’re a bright talented CS graduate you’re going to find a good job with good pay even in this environment. Maybe some people may not find their “dream job” straight out of school and they will have to wait out some cyclic hiring slowdown for a year or so but it’s hardly some terrible end of the tech dream for the youngsters.
would be really interested in learning what proportion of data was exfiltrated by AWS compared to Azure. Microsoft were really ginning up their involvement in a similar scheme earlier this year: https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE...
