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This is why I ended up diverting into production. All of the tech jobs were harder and harder to get and the quality of them was rapidly declining as well.
At least with my production job, I get to get up from my desk regularly and have realistic, concrete goals to hit.
What is production
From context; manufacturing.
I did some searching and found exactly one website that defines it as a role. I think in the graph it’s a catch-all for tangential “making sure software is ready for consumers” roles (QA, release management, technical program managers, etc.) that don’t write code as the main aspect of their job.
This site defines it as kind of a nightmare hybrid Quality Assurance-engineering manager role.
Hire and manage blended team, design and implement test lab leveraging existing infrastructure and execute application test plans.
Institute prioritization of backlog and re-organization of JIRA so developers know their priorities and ensure most important features are addressed.
Coordinate system architecture definition, system specification, testing, debugging, validation, vendor relations and customer interaction.
I assume this type of job has become more important since everyone is being forced to use AI to write code, ignoring that it puts way more pressure on QA.
You sure? Because you might have data, but I got a rude comment the other day from some guy who works at a help desk about how there are SO many jobs and I'm not sure which to believe.
/s if not abundantly clear
Am I confused looking at this graph? That these numbers represent the “total change” in tech job for these fields during these time spans? Sort of like a graph of velocity over time, not distance travelled?
So to get a representation of what this graph might look like as total jobs, it would be (omitting 2020) a huge spike in total jobs then a plateau and slight decrease?
While relevant, it seems a little deceptive that people might look at this and say “there are less jobs now than one years ago” rather “there are still more jobs than two years ago”
My read is in the context of "trying to get a job".
To get a job, you gotta match an unfilled position with a person.
This either happens through a company re-hiring for the same position because of attrition, or a net new job created that you can fill.
This graph shows the latter.
You can roughly interpret this graph as showing the net-success of people entering that workforce.
So, if you're trying to get into the field, this is painting a bleak picture that in general, people are unable to enter the field (at least without at LEAST one person exiting it)
There's also more people trying to get a s tech job so for things to remain the same the graph needs to be positive
So a little shave off after a few years of massive growth.
Yep, this shows clearly how much tech overhired during and after COVID.
This is a correction.
Thousands and thousands of people went into tech because it was so “profitable.” This kind of hype happens every ten years or so and there’s always a correction.
The last one I remember was the coding bootcamp surge, which filled the industry with mediocre people looking for good-paying jobs. These booms and busts been happening my entire career!
Also, love to see people downvoting right away. Poor baby, did you go into tech at the wrong time?
Based on your experience, when will we get back to normal?
The recovery recently for certain jobs makes me a little optimistic.
The slight recovery of “Software Publishers” and “Custom Computer Programming Services” is a good sign to me. The continued decline specifically of “Computer Systems Design” makes some sense too. They hired like crazy for that role, and unlike the programming or publishing roles, I think “systems design” is a more difficult position to hire well. It seems like a bad sign to me that so much of the over-hiring was for that role. Just hiring to hire. So that one might struggle for a long time but the Publisher and Programmer jobs will recover sooner.
I think a lot of companies jumped on the AI trend as an excuse to let go of people (and improve their short-term bottom line). Inevitably, they’ll need to hire again.
Looks like a spinosaurus swimming through the job sector
Huh that's odd? I thought during 2020-2021 lots of people were hired because of the pandemic, lots of things were suddenly done online instead of irl?
