Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow

Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by belter on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:11AM (#42794257)

> For those who don’t know, a new grad going into any of the BigTech companies can make around $165K straight out of college and should be making way more than me in three years.

What bubble do you live in?

"US Tech Layoffs Continue In 2025 With Big Tech Scaling Worker Counts And Fintech, E-Commerce Sectors Reporting Total Shutdowns" - https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs/

"Computer science grads say the job market is rough. Some are opting for a ‘panic’ master’s degree instead." - https://www.businessinsider.nl/computer-science-grads-say-th...

https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/1fylku5/are_most_...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/02/15/why-is-it-...

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by scarface_74 on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:24AM (#42794462)

You do know that these companies still hire people don’t you?

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by belter on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:26AM (#42794489)

In other Continents :-)

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by achierius on Thursday January 23, 2025 @05:48PM (#42808873)

Like North America?

I really don't know what to tell you, it's not 2020 anymore but people are still hiring people in the same places they've always been.

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by belter on Friday January 24, 2025 @04:50AM (#42811781)

"Software Development Job Postings" : https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by mickelsen on Friday January 24, 2025 @01:10PM (#42815687)

I don't see earlier than 2020 data, is there another platform like that?

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by anthomtb on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:22AM (#42794433)

Well, he (probably not she) is describing expected earnings once hired, not chances of actually getting hired.

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Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow by scarface_74 on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:37AM (#42794620)

And more to the point, when I mentioned what I was making, I didn’t want to get the response that “you know you could make $400K+ by grinding leetCode and working for a FAANG”.

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