My Honest Thoughts On The Software Engineering Market In 2024

what's up everybody how's it going in this video I'm going to share my honest thoughts about the current software engineering Market 2024 I figure that the best way to do that is to share first my unfiltered negative thoughts about the software engineering Market in 2024 and then to share my unfiltered positive thoughts about the market right now and then we can kind of combine the two thoughts together and come to a conclusion so with that said I have to give you a warning the first half of this video is going to be quite negative so if you're kind of feeling down right now if you're struggling to get a job or something I would encourage you to watch the entire video because the first half is definitely not going to motivate you or make you feel any better it's going to probably like make you feel even worse but I do think that this is the best way to share my honest thoughts about the market so with that said the negative thoughts about the software engineering industry right now what is so negative about it well to put it simply I think it comes down to right now is a brutal time to find a job as a software engineer particularly for the software Engineer s that fall in the bracket of no work experience all the way to four to of work experience which is basically senior software engineer at that point so very very brutal to get a job as a software engineer especially in that bracket and what makes this even worse the really depressing part of this is that that honestly I don't think it's going to get better anytime soon if ever like there's a world where it doesn't get better than right now now in order right now we have to rewind the clock a little bit and go back to the Golden Era of tech which I'd like to think is like the 2010s but particularly the latter half of the 201 TS so let's say 2015 2016 and beyond all the way to 2022 and uh going back there I'm going to share uh very briefly my story how I got into Tech because it's very relevant here I got into Tech uh after I graduated from college in 2016 I had never written