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Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0VA.GpDO.FmTTMzKkRYXj
www.nytimes.comGoodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. (Gift Article)As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.
Replying to @Zaelaa@lemmy.zip
“The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,” Ms. Mishra, now 21, recalls hearing as she grew up in San Ramon, Calif.
This has never ever been true for any job, especially at 21 years old.
I mean maybe there's a rare trade that gives you the bick bucks from the get go, but even law practice and finance takes a lot of unpaid work to finally get properly paid.
Replying to @massive_bereavement@fedia.io
Might not have been true, but has definitely been the narrative pedalled to young people for years.
There is always some career that kids get pushed into with a promise of “jobs in demand” and “guaranteed salary”.
Replying to @KaChilde@sh.itjust.works
It was true around the .com boom, and the advice might have been good for a few years, but like everything else: following yesterday’s trends will get you lost in a crowd of the clueless and under-informed.