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Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates (www.newsweek.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Published earlier this year, but still relevant.

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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What you are describing is a constant. Everything is scaled up. I don’t believe for a second that it’s difficult to hire unless you’re talking about these idiots who say things like “Don’t I deserve to hire the best candidate for the job?”

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It is not hard to hire someone, it is hard to hire someone who doesn't give you more work than they solve. I am not against hiring juniors, but they have to show initiative that they are passionate and able to improve. I don't want a person who will be junior for the rest of their career, because juniors usually require babysitting and that that away work and attention from competent people (the chads who actually build the core features and have to attend business meetings on why it is so good for customers to see additional offers during checking out).

    It is a combination - incompetent HR, incompetent candidates, or bad hiring process. I am yet to apply to a company with a hiring process I'd call pleasant on all angles.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And most importantly a lack of companies willing to train their employees. They're all pointing fingers at every other company to do the training for them, then wondering why they can't find anyone with the training they want. Whodathunkit

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    On one hand, courses exist, but they can't prepare you for company specific situations. Companies rely on people knowing everything because they had some course. It's dumb and you gotta pray the company brings it up sooner or later.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    It's really not. Hiring was much easier 3-4 years ago as the pandemic nonsense was ending and people were bailing on companies forcing people to be back in office 5x/week. The competent devs knew they could do better, while the less competent devs held on to what they had.

    Now with a bunch of layoffs, the candidate pool is completely flooded, and since we're not a big flashy tech company, we seem to get a ton of drive-by applicants who aren't qualified at all.

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