Who will be the senior engineers of 2035? - The Engineering Manager
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Where will the senior engineers of 2035 come from? With junior hiring down 67% since 2022, we explore three possible scenarios.
This month, we’re going to explore a question that is a pertinent topic right now: where are the senior engineers of the future going to come from? After years of post-Covid layoffs, hiring has slowed across the board as companies wait to see how AI efficiency gains and the economy play out. Unfortunately, juniors are caught up in that slowdown: it’s a hard time to be graduating with a computer science degree. Meanwhile, AI is absorbing the small changes and bug fixes that used to be perfect training tasks for junior engineers, and the managers who traditionally developed early-car
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