Growing tribe of jobless techies is stuck in Silicon Valley's new reality

mixmastamyk

This piece is more optimistic than reality, imho. As an older worker, without BigTech on my resume or a four year degree, I'll probably never work again in the industry, barring some lightning strike. Anecdotal, but I just went to PyCon and about 1/3 of the dozens of folks I talked to are looking for work. The "job fair" was everyone playing charades, there are still a hundred people for every position. One said they were hiring 2-6% of applicants. At least the lunch was nice.

cglan

Every startup under the sun is hiring decent software engineers. If you cannot find a job right now as a software engineer with experience, that's on you

simianwords

If we go by history, ambitious elites without a good direction is grounds for a revolution.

RetroTechie

The upside: the SV area will have a very tech-savvy homeless population! (if not already... dunno I don't live there)

the_real_cher

So what are tech people supposed to do? LOL

vfclists

Young American, whether job seekers on in employment, don't understand that their greatest power is their power to vote, and organizing themselves to use that power properly ability and using it properly is the way of improving the condition of their country and themselves.