@heroicthehobbyist@mastodon.gamedev.place
Post #2135083
2026-05-06 18:47 UTC
@llorenzin - I’m a Sophomore in CS, and the “Junior developer hiring is over” is saddening. The amount of effort I need to just get up to bat let alone on first base is deflating. It’s not enough to show basic competence, communication, and a capacity to learn; these days you need to have your own end-to-end software platform up and 100+ leetcode questions memorized. The system is all messed up, and the worst part is this is all unforced errors. It doesn’t have to be like this.
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@llorenzin@infosec.exchange 2026-05-06 21:10
@heroicthehobbyist I am so sorry... I was mentoring a CS college student a few years ago, and she asked if we could continue after she graduated - I told her I'm happy to be a sounding board and a friend, but I can't in good conscience call myself a mentor anymore because the world I worked in is gone and all the rules I knew for how to succeed no longer apply. It *shouldn't* be like this. But I honestly think learning a trade may be a safer course than IT until the bubble pops and sanity returns...