Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break 8 months ago
I appreciate the authors points here. There are definitely large swaths of interns/juniors who are going through this pain.
That being said, it is also true that the quality of graduates we are seeing has dropped dramatically in the last 2-3 years. We have really been struggling to hire competent juniors. Most bomb their interviews, and with coding tools many have not actually had to learn fundamentals at university.
Computer science has exploded in popularity because of the money that can be made in the industry and the distribution of people who enter the field has changed significantly. I do wonder about the signal to noise ratio here from people who maybe should not have entered the industry.