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There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers

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263 points mooreds | 1 comments | 30 Sep 25 03:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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anilgulecha ◴[30 Sep 25 03:52 UTC] No.45421729[source]▶
Boot camp level skills are dead now - deeper grounding in CS is a requirement. With the 2022 hiring boom over and AI taking on some of the work, the junior market has more competitive, and will remain so in the foreseeable future.

My advice to new grads, students, and other juniors is to find any way to get real-world work experience. The pay for these roles may be lower, as higher salaries are increasingly reserved for senior-level engineers.

FOSS software is any other place to build skills and value until you land paying roles.

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jimbob45 ◴[30 Sep 25 04:45 UTC] No.45421978[source]▶
No one cares about FOSS experience. You’re lucky if they even visit your GitHub/Lab/Berg at all and even luckier if they look at anything past your heatmap.

Fact is, if FOSS experience counted for anything, then those charged with hiring would also possess the capacity to understand that C# and Java experience are nearly 1:1. Sadly, it doesn’t and they don’t.

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1. smlavine ◴[30 Sep 25 19:12 UTC] No.45429859[source]▶
Having been through interviews lately for mid-level CS internship positions, I'd say that having FOSS contributions on my resume that I was able to discuss extensively was indeed a factor in both attaining an interview and ultimately an internship.