Gregory's Server@fuzzychef I swear that so many of the coding boot camps and learn to code initiatives were about increasing the labor pool of developers so that the compensation could be lowered and devs would be less likely to job hunt in search of a raise.
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@Cleopatra @fuzzychef it was always so fascinating when I was mentoring new devs how it was always the minorities in the boot camps that got hired last and offered less. Two companies in my city created their own boot camps and then hired only 4 people, but oh they advertised so much on the "look how diverse the students are!"  @ChaosCatgirl after skipping going into tech when i was in school & now making the effort after a While later, i have definitely been concerned that companies will see an opportunity to cheap out on a lower caste of devs who will take anything. like that needs to be actively resisted but it's definitely true that anyone looking for a first job right now will accept almost anything, at least at the beginning  @ChaosCatgirl @fuzzychef Coding bootcamps also have had the awful effect of completely diluting the industry as a whole so that now basically every software job I can find fits neatly into one of the molds established by bootcamps. The entire industry is now all about frontend/backend/full-stack, nobody knows how to hire for things like platform engineering or graphics programming or embedded or whatever. @ChaosCatgirl @fuzzychef Like how Sun convinced universities that Java was the future and all CS curricula should be based around teaching Java, then the market was flooded with folks who only knew Java, then suddenly every software company was a Java shop for a few years. (Although honestly I'd take Java over React+Node any day.) @ChaosCatgirl @fuzzychef the huge emphasis on STEM nationwide has ALWAYS been about increasing the labor pool to drive salaries down. |
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Oh absolutely. Companies LOVE those bootcamps, they will brag about how it teaches coding to underserved communities, they will talk up the students for showing initiative (without necessarily hiring them)