I don't know of a single recent graduate who had a job lined up out the the door like almost my entire graduating class did

i remember back in the late 2010s software dev was pushed like hell to anyone who was listening. "oh yea bro if you go into compsci you'll get six figures right out of the gate bro don't worry about the competition bro" and at the time it was true. when i graduated the bubble was in the middle of popping so i was still fine. nowadays things have gotten so bad that you'll be lucky to get a dead end IT job after 200 applications. obviously the field will never fully disappear but i expect it to shrink significantly before it gets any better.

The only worse thing than a tech job doing something frivolous or deadly (95% of tech jobs BTW) is doing these obtuse leetcode problems.

The companies that do the most leetcode are by far the least innovative and the most mired in bureaucracy. Think about Meta, who asks you to do two medium Leetcodes in 40 minutes. They spent $60 million on their shit version of VRChat and Zucc pledged to spend $600 million on his AI bullshit that doesn't even work most of the time, especially for anything serious. Meanwhile Facebook, their flagship product, is a slop-infested Nazi site, or maybe a Nazi-infested slop site, even more than it was in the past.

Meanwhile one of my friends works for a virtual power plant company. Sounds important, right? It's a company that automatically pays Bitcoin miners to stop mining Bitcoin when the price of electricity rises corresponding with demand peaks. Essentially half-solving a problem that was caused by tech in the first place! The definition of a bullshit job!

I expect hiring will come back only after the bubble pops and interest rates are dropped to try to save the economy. Either that or if the corporations are given tax breaks. Of course at that point the prosperity of tech workers will come at the expense of everyone else.