How is the job market in your area?
Posted by FooBarBuzzBoom@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 35 comments
What do you think about job market outlook? How will AI bubble burst will affect job quantity, but how will it impact the quality of jobs, because no one talks about it. From my point of view (Easter Europe based), manager expects more and more of you instead of just offering you more time for yourself which would translate into better focus, more attention to details, etc (I guess that’s how capitalism works)
miczipl@reddit
Poland, Python backend 5yoe - judging by Linkedin requests the market seems fine (even though due to inflation my real earnings were bigger 2 years ago).
The only thing I don't like is the push back to office, best paid jobs are hybrid. I have nothing against meeting in an office for particular reason, but being forced to go there 2/3/4 times a week just to justify someone's micro management needs is something I find hard to agree for. I managed to find a nice remote job for acceptable salary, but it wasn't easy.
Nezrann@reddit
Our job market is decent, but we have a lot of federal contracts and embedded work here, which seems to be a rarity.
Tired__Dev@reddit
No shit eh? We have a decent chunk of embedded work here? Where are you KW?
Nezrann@reddit
Nearby, yeah!
Waterloo's job growth has been insane.
Normal-Carpenter1413@reddit
What kind of embedded work?
FooBarBuzzBoom@reddit (OP)
What country?
Nezrann@reddit
Canada
butteredxtoast@reddit
👋 in SF
Seemingly abundant, but fiercely competitive. Got laid off earlier this year & found a new job after ~3 months (was a mid/senior Laravel developer -> now a Flask backend/dev ops lead for a small agency)
ColdCouchWall@reddit
It doesn’t exist anymore
Moamlrh@reddit
Where is your area?
restore-my-uncle92@reddit
Carthage
TooLateQ_Q@reddit
Gone aswell
serial_crusher@reddit
I went all in on remote work in 2022 and moved to a small town because at the time it seemed like remote was here to stay. There’s no job market in my area :(
The cost of living in this town is actually about on par with the city I used to live in, so competing for remote jobs whenever I jump ship is probably going to mean taking a big pay cut that I can technically afford but would prefer not to.
Careful_General_8221@reddit
Great, good money. A few people in our team got better offers and switched. NYC
wildemu@reddit
From my experience, positions are flooded with applicants and the interview process is hard as hell.
BayouBait@reddit
NYC and SF are the hottest tech markets in the country if you want to live in either of those places.
St0xTr4d3r@reddit
Trying to learn CMake and ChatGPT gave nonsense answers. At one point it starting saying “Oh I was joking now here’s the actual answer!” and then continuing with gibberish 🤷♀️
Job market in Los Angeles is alot of 6-month contracts. Which seem to go unfillled. I wonder why 🙄 Anecdata, it took me 8-9 months to land this gig so I’ll be sticking with full-time work, thank you.
sfscsdsf@reddit
are you allowed to use AI?
FooBarBuzzBoom@reddit (OP)
They are actually pushing us to use this shit.
sfscsdsf@reddit
wow, I thought those from EE aren’t using AI due to the typical type contracting employment there, and if you guys are using, sounds like that can improve efficiency even more to be better alternatives for hiring than those from more expensive countries.
forgottenHedgehog@reddit
Asking if you should ask for a raise, switch companies (“should I work for company A or company B”), “should I take offer A or offer B”, or related questions, is not appropriate for this sub.
This includes almost any discussion about a “hot market”, comparing compensation between companies, etc.
xamott@reddit
Yeah right. The changing market is the number one concern for all of us right now.
forgottenHedgehog@reddit
Then have a chat with mods to get those rules changed.
ColdStaff123@reddit
5YOE NodeJS/Fullstack dev, Northern Europe
What do you think about the job market outlook? How will the AI bubble burst affect the quantity of jobs?
- Haven't noticed a big change, approx 3 recruiters a week on linkedin reaching out
How is the quality of your job impacted by AI? How is the quality of the code compared to pre-AI bubble?
- Too many colleagues and especially juniors spit out tons of code using AI and are lazy to go through it, just trusts it and ships it, can't answer questions when reviewing. It's great for boilerplate and spinning up initial new programs, and debugging/fixing frustrating problems, but I don't like the spaghetti code that follows.
IDontEnjoyCoffee@reddit
South Africa here. Job market is excellent for mid to seniors. Have more potential offers than I know what to do with. Recently got a job with a 70% increase and my current employer actually matched. Work life balance is pretty great too. We're in a good position due to local devs going abroad, and SA has a pretty strong tech scene with less competition due to everyone wanting to leave due to violent crime and corrupted government.
PayLegitimate7167@reddit
It's OK but over saturated with applicants. Most roles are hybrid.
03263@reddit
My area is remote
Ginn_and_Juice@reddit
Mexico city is thriving with return to office positions, I got a job in a week just because of my stack and the fact that im here
Beginning-Comedian-2@reddit
What stack?
Ginn_and_Juice@reddit
Rails backend senior with hopes that I pick up angular and br full stack
geopede@reddit
True senior Rails devs have become super rare at this point, if someone needs one I’d imagine you can name your price to an extent
FooBarBuzzBoom@reddit (OP)
RTO is a really bad thing. I personally prefer to be laid off.
Ginn_and_Juice@reddit
Yeah but when you have bills to pay to take the sure thing and then you look for something better. Also, I don't hate in office
tomqmasters@reddit
I get several calls a day from recruiters. No job yet though after a couple of weeks. I am being picky though. Some of the jobs I didn't want sounded like sure things, probably because nobody else wanted them.
FooBarBuzzBoom@reddit (OP)
Stay picky. I switched to another job and now I regret I wasn’t picky enough. Having to deal with old spaghetti code is not that fun.