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In my experience, the USA is shitting on its entry-level engineers. I know 3 junior engineers unemployed 6 months after graduation, from top 20 to top 40 schools. They have 10 total internships among them.

One had a zoom, corp job with 24/7 hours they had no life and quit. One had their offer rescinded 4 weeks before start date. One had their position cancelled 60d after start date. All are now longterm unemployed with virtually no interviews.

Meanwhile overseas hiring and 85k H1B workers are flooding the job markets annually, its galling ...



As the top comment says, this is sadly a consequence of remote working.

I started my career in the dot com boom a quarter century ago, and when it burst there was initially a huge rush of fear that "everything will be outsourced to India and China". That never really panned out, primarily because (a) teleconferencing tech wasn't nearly as good as it is now, and (b) the huge timezone differences were an absolute killer for productivity, especially in a world that discovered things like fast cycle times and continuous deployment were a critical competitive advantage.

Now, though, I think a lot of companies have learned from those problems. I see much more outsourcing to places like Latin America (same or nearly same timezone) or Eastern Europe (obv. not as good timezone overlap but still doable if you have US workers start a bit earlier than usual and European a bit later). Also, since nearly everyone, even in "RTO" offices, spends a huge amount of time on Zoom, etc., it's much easier to have outsourced workers treated as fully equal team members.

I agree, it totally sucks for US entry-level devs. Based on my experience in the US of how we outsourced other previously critical competencies, I don't have a good answer.


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