It is becoming increasingly evident everyday that knowing programming and having basic software engineering skills, no longer provides a reasonable career security. I see literally hundreds of people every week that have full stack web development experience or various other skills that are unemployed for months. That’s basically an end of career level gap in practical terms. I mean how are they supposed to survive this long without a job? So I think CS/IT is saturated to the point that it is only a game for the top players. Mediocrity is going for extinction pretty rapidly.
This is just the situation for every job out there in history. Upskill and move into management or open your own business and lead. Jobs either get automated or get saturated with qualified supply which drives compensation down.
Management is made redundant too.
Yeah so the end game is just collecting money until you die.
If you're at Amazon you're not mediocre. There are so many other companies that will hire you. Whether you're willing to accept working at lower tier companies that pay less is up to you.
When did OP say they are mediocre. That’s not the point of the post.
When did I say he did? I'm addressing the last paragraph of the post. Read.
There are hundreds of thousands more software engineering jobs than there were even two years ago. The layoffs haven’t even put a small dent in all the hiring we’ve done over the past few years. You are not seeing the forest through the trees. And if you think job insecurity is an issue, you should have seen things in 01 or 08. This is way better than it was in those days and the market managed to recover. Stop all the snowflake doom and gloom whining. Things have never been better in tech.
90s Tech boom vibes. Care about your craft if you want to do well
Amazon will rehire you as a driver
Is this really true? Or is it a perception perpetuated by new grads posting their life stories on LinkedIn for likes?
After working at Amazon, you should have realized most engineers are glorified plumbers tinkering with AWS tools. Doesn’t apply to AWS engineers though. Doesn’t require an AI tool to make you realize that.
Yall welcome 🤷
I swear amazonians make similar post everyday. Go outside and touch grass, seriously.
Right? I was laid off this year and had 5 offers within a month. FFS it makes me wonder how many Amazon people are leetcode engineers with no ability to explain a design project.
Getting 5 offers is not a big deal. What matters is the quality of offers.