cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/71221312

"AI isn't capable of taking any jobs away."

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[–] 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

In my 20 year career I've witnessed 1 (one) person get promoted into a tech role after holding a different position at the company.

Job opportunities for junior and intermediate software devs were not great 5 years ago and now ai killed them entirely. My previous employer not only stopped that kind of hiring but fired ~20% of the staff and told seniors to make up the difference with ai.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    Technically I did way back at the beginning of my career, but only due to interdepartmental budgetary shenanigans going on under the table. The company needed a programmer but the programming department's headcount was full. They had room for a technical writer in that department's headcount but didn't need one. So I got hired as a technical writer, started coding, and then about six months later got "promoted" to the correct department the moment there was an opportunity to do so. It was all planned ahead of time, though. I was never really a technical writer.

    Ah, dumb business tricks.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago*

    There's definitely no one size fits all solution to a saturated job market.

    But, I had 10 years of experience in my current IT field, plus 4x letters of recommendation from the owners of my last 3 jobs (it was technically the same job). I sent out over 600 applications, and got a single invitation to a round 1 interview (answer more questions on their hiring site), and maybe 20 rejections. Every other one was just silence.

    Basically the only ways to get into the field now are A) get lucky, B) know a guy, C) become a known quantity at the company. I went with B and C (my wife worked there and got me the temp job).

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