News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career. Parent comment

Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by francisofascii on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:18PM (#48099428)
Anecdotally, our firm's Covid hires were just okay. The recent hires are better. So my hunch is the weaker CS candidates were able to get jobs back during Covid, while today, they are left out.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by t-writescode on Monday May 11, 2026 @11:03PM (#48103708)
> So my hunch is the weaker CS candidates were able to get jobs back during Covid, while today, they are left out.

Does this mean that your assertion is that "people currently unable to get a job are weak CS people"?

[ Parent | on HN ]