The SignalFire State of Tech Talent Report - 2025
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SignalFire’s 2025 State of Tect Talent Report reveals a sharp reset in tech hiring—entry-level roles are vanishing, elite AI labs like Anthropic are winning the retention war, and new power centers are reshaping where talent thrives.
  • Big Tech: New grads now account for just 7% of hires, with new hires down 25% from 2023 and over 50% from pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
  • Startups: New grads make up under 6% of hires, with new hires down 11% from 2023 and over 30% from pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
  • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    There’s inevitably going to be some rebounding from this. It’s probably true that the large language models these companies are betting their businesses on can do some of the things entry-level grads do, but we’ve already seen several of them fail because their MBAs didn’t realize that just barfing out code is only one part of what developers do.

    Source: Am developer, currently working with LLMs and related tech, none of which would be able to get anywhere without someone like me doing the work.

    • Pro@programming.devOPEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      He said:

      Bullshit, I don't believe it

      What he meant to say:

      Please, don't be true.

        • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, tech firms that are trying to hype their AI products as the next big thing are trying to spin the narrative that they are suffering economically. As someone who was a junior sw dev in the past, I can tell you that AI written code is 100% not good enough to do that job. It might be utilized to do that work faster - but then any sensible business wouldn’t lay off their juniors, but instead would simply have them produce more output in order to sell more product and make more money.