> There's an over-production of CS grads, as the industry looked very lucrative, so a lot of people decided to go software engineering route.
I don't know about CS grads but I definitely don't see an overproduction of Junior Engineers, or at least what I expect of them. Junior Engineer in my understanding is someone who knows algorithms and data structures, knows at least one programming language really well and can quickly write small programs in that language. He lacks any real experience, he probably never worked on a project bigger than 10k of code, he may not know what CI/CD or docker is, BUT he can code. If you add some curiosity into the mix, he'll have a solid growth path in front of him.
Most of the people I interview for Junior positions cannot code, just can't write 5 lines (sic) of code on the interview on the language they claim is their favorite. I honestly don't understand it, would you apply for a junior cook if you can't cook a ham sandwich? A junior taxi driver if don't know how to drive a car?
Junior means "lots of knowledge but no experience" but somehow in IT many people assume that it means "no knowledge, no experience".
If you know where to find overproduced Junior Engineers let me know please and I'll hire them with pleasure.
I don't know about CS grads but I definitely don't see an overproduction of Junior Engineers, or at least what I expect of them. Junior Engineer in my understanding is someone who knows algorithms and data structures, knows at least one programming language really well and can quickly write small programs in that language. He lacks any real experience, he probably never worked on a project bigger than 10k of code, he may not know what CI/CD or docker is, BUT he can code. If you add some curiosity into the mix, he'll have a solid growth path in front of him.
Most of the people I interview for Junior positions cannot code, just can't write 5 lines (sic) of code on the interview on the language they claim is their favorite. I honestly don't understand it, would you apply for a junior cook if you can't cook a ham sandwich? A junior taxi driver if don't know how to drive a car?
Junior means "lots of knowledge but no experience" but somehow in IT many people assume that it means "no knowledge, no experience".
If you know where to find overproduced Junior Engineers let me know please and I'll hire them with pleasure.