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> I wonder how to reconcile those stats with the stories I hear about the CS job market.

Most of the stories you hear about difficulties getting hired are from new grads. Anecdotally, companies have become far less willing to train juniors over the past few years, they only want to hire seniors that other companies have already trained. It would be interesting to see these per-major underemployment numbers filtered by whether someone had recently graduated.



> companies have become far less willing to train juniors over the past few years

Might have something to do with the appalling employee retention numbers in today’s tech scene.

Why bother spending six months, and five figures, training someone, only to have them hop to another company in 18 months?


It's easier to keep employees when you adjust their compensation to remain at the market rate.


It’s more than just money, though. It’s just that companies are using that as their only variable, so the results are inevitable.

For some reason, companies would rather pay insane salaries, than treat employees well enough to encourage them to stay.




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