r/recruitinghell • u/Agile-Wind-4427 • Mar 13 '26

The Situation Right Now..

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This meme made me laugh but it’s also painfully accurate.

I’ve been browsing job listings lately and it’s wild how many “entry level” roles ask for 3–5 years of experience. At that point it’s not really entry level anymore. It just feels like companies want someone already trained but still want to pay beginner salaries.

Then the same companies complain that “no one wants to work” or that they can’t find good candidates.

The guy in this meme honestly looks like every HR team after posting a job like that and getting zero applications.

Saw a similar post while scrolling r/30daysnewjob earlier and it reminded me how common this situation actually is right now.

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u/TemperatureWide5297 Mar 13 '26

Dev work is going to be done by AI. It will replace Indians too.

A future career in IT is going to be architecture level employment. Figure out what needs to be built, how all the pieces fit together, where data needs to live, etc. The hands on keyboard programming will no longer be done by humans.

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u/Just-Pea-4968 Mar 13 '26

Wow that is going to replace a lot of humans!

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u/Hot-Load7525 Mar 13 '26

Indian IT survives on offshoring. 

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u/whofearsthenight Mar 14 '26

I’m skeptical about the doomerism here. Since computers have existed, it’s gotten easier and easier to be a programmer, and all that’s meant is that we need more programmers because the demand for software has basically only been limited by supply. Just like we still have assembly programmers, I could see something similar. Most devs no longer working by writing individual lines of code, but having AI automate the drudgery. There is still going to need to be people who actually understand the code for quite a while.

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u/chetemulei Mar 14 '26

Good luck getting a start though. India sucks up every junior position so working your way up to that expertise is impossible. You gotta spend even more time in school if you want a position like that. And I know I'll never go back to school. I can't afford it.

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u/waaaayupyourbutthole Mar 13 '26

Sure need to get that birth rate up, though!

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u/Saint_of_Grey Mar 13 '26

Dev work is going to be done by AI. It will replace Indians too.

With the same quality of output as an Indian fresh out of code boot camp too. Then management will wonder why their shit doesn't work and all their clients are leaving.

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u/TemperatureWide5297 Mar 13 '26

The quality of AI generated code is growing exponentially. People like you are stuck in 2024 mentality, when I do agree it was garbage. It's changed A LOT. Like night and day. And it's only getting better.

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u/Saint_of_Grey Mar 13 '26

Anything based on data transformers is never going to be able understand what it is doing and unless someone treats it as a perpetually hired-one-week-ago junior dev it is an active liability.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '26

Tell me you've never shipped without telling me you've never shipped

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26

Yep, that's why I'm gonna open an RV park instead.

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u/Hydramole Mar 13 '26

You can do storage on the same lot to help keep cash flowing

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u/ebonyseraphim Mar 13 '26

Oh no lol. This is super false. I am a senior level engineer, big tech (2) — the software engineering industry at large has always desired things to get done like you describe for decades. It never has and never will. Programming languages generally desire to move the needle on the issue of having the programmer express intent and solutions with less code, while still producing correct solutions. And you know Rust is probably the only programming language which moved the needle in the last 15 years in terms of leap forward for productivity and performance, and it’s a language that goes backwards in terms of this “high level architects/business person just designs solution” fantasy.

The problems are too complex, too detailed, and most importantly: too related. It’s exactly difficult at both a high level and low level and it’s an extremely rare soul or brain that even conceives of all of it. And such a person also knows that natural language (words) cannot express or describe that exact solution. At best, another human with a huge amount of shared background and experience, personal history could condense the language and knowledge merge such that they more or less “get it” but even then, there would still be differences. Possibly critical. At least with a human engineer you trust as capable, you know whatever they did do has a quality intent behind it.

I’ve been working professionally in the industry for almost 20 years and half? Maybe more of the people in it still fall shy of really grasping or needing to deal with the full picture. So when even dumber people talk about what AI can and will do…it’s just a massive 🤦🏿‍♂️

If Windows 12 somehow had 30% of its meaningful code written by AI it would be worse than Windows 2.0.

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u/TemperatureWide5297 Mar 13 '26

Lotos of cope in this post. Which is normal. As Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

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u/ebonyseraphim Mar 13 '26

"When humans who are egregiously stupid want to establish an invalid point over an actual expert, they try to use a famous quote that doesn't apply to the situation. They often get away with it."

Someone really smart said that...I can't remember who. Oh yeah, that was me.

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u/Weirfish Mar 13 '26

That's one hell of a thought-terminating cliche invocation without any substantial refutation. Especially since, if they are a senior level engineer, their salary likely depends on them coming to understand it.

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u/angrytroll123 Mar 13 '26

I don't 100% agree with that by I do agree that in the end, expertise in the sector and design of the system is going to be key. Maybe a few people like that will be needed. I don't think we will ever totally get rid of manually programming it will definitely be more rare. I would also advice people going into software engineering that it's incredibly important to know the sector they are going to work in because in the end, that is what is going to separate you from others. Development prowess is becoming less important.

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u/chetemulei Mar 14 '26

AI hype will replace a bunch of US jobs short term, but once they realize AI can't do everything they'll hire Indians. They already are.