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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Med is always in demand. CS is not. Was hot soon to be cooler[/quote]

This is wholly inaccurate. The layoffs were across jobs and a few big companies and the people with CS backgrounds all had new jobs within a week. [/quote]

Just a beginning far from over. You make it sound like it’s over and done with.[/quote]

It’s more that people are lumping all jobs at tech companies as CS, and they’re not even close to being accurate. Very many of those jobs were non-technical and had nothing to do with computer science. Also, it’s a field that is hired at very many companies that aren’t FAANG and many of those have a lot of openings to fill those hires for the technical roles. Stating there is some issue with CS graduates getting hired is inaccurate and will remain so for a long time.[/quote]

Endless demand is what you are saying? Does that make sense to you? [/quote]

You’re making no sense. No one said endless demand. There is currently not concern that there will be not be jobs for new graduates. Demand for $400K salaries is a different discussion. [/quote]

How about demand in 4 years when DC's kid graduates? [/quote]

Or 10 years or 20 years down the road? Will it be as good as medicine? I think not. [/quote]

It hasn't been better than medicine for ages now.  Outsourcing and automation of project tracking and Agile had change playing field and turned tech work into glorified factory work.  Even if you are a high skilled SME you can expect to be treated like an assembly line worker.  And if you are a manager then you are expected to run your team like a factory floor or risk displeasing upper management.   Some of it is starting to happen in medicine as well, but not to the same extent and doctors can set their own hours, open their practice and decide how many patients they see.  In Tech or IT most work is full time and this means around the clock (because a lot of teams are on different time zones).  You can be a crappy doctor and still see patients just because they need routine stuff and prescriptions.  Correct me if I am wrong.  [/quote]
Bro, if your work environment is like working in a factory, then you’re doing Agile wrong.  It’s actually the total opposite of constant managerial oversight — it’s lead by self organizing teams of developers, and it’s a highly skilled craft.  What you describe is not Agile, it’s what Robert Martin calls out as clueless middle managers killing Agile. [/quote]

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