I’ve been a SWE for more than 8 years now. It was so easy getting jobs 2-3 years ago. Now it’s like a never-ending battle if you’re trying to land a job in this market right now. Especially with AI on the rise, many companies and businesses are skeptical to hire software engineer who are not unicorns (many years in FAANG companies).
I’ve worked in corporate, startup environments, and i’ve failed now twice trying to make my own business.
In theory, if I was a unicorn in my craft (SWE) I should be able to create an application that gets alot of traffic and revenue. My point is, maybe it’s not the app/idea/software itself. It’s just who you know and how you can sell.
So SWE’s are pointless now pretty much? Go use wordpress with an experienced business guy and you already closer to being successful than a unicorn SWE.
Thoughts?
Software engineers are in huge demand. This post doesn’t make much sense. Maybe you are overestimating your abilities.
If you’re talking about web dev that has gotten split between UI/UX designers (also in big demand right now) and back end developers.
SWE isn’t drying up any time soon. Least of all to AI right now, it produces bad code so often. Remember it takes more time to fix bad code than to write good code the first time.
If SE’s are in huge demand, what do you recommend for new cs grads and how they should tailor their resumes if they wanna get a job in this market?