A question for the pass outs, working in the industry
What is the job market here like ? From what it feels like the technology market seems to be in quite a nascent stages (I could be totally wrong but weird tech stacks etc, not many innovative products and companies) and its almost like there are more developers here than products. I have some experience from Europe and Asia-oceania.
Another thing that I have been hearing is that most people hire through references, or certificates, degrees etc and not projects.
The Job descriptions are ludicrous at times, I mean I understand HR's are mostly useless and you can find this in other places too, but here it seems like companies use recruitment where people have no idea of the product or stack.
A bit of a rant 😓 , but what thoughts ?
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Currently - yes. There are too many juniors/mid levels and not enough jobs. Which seems to be more like a temporary effect after covid.
Yes, you get the most through references. Degrees - yea, right now with the market, they do look at degrees, but the most degrees get you are those first co-op job positions through internal job lists. Projects get you jobs too, but depends which jobs - recruiting has to be done by a developer probably, not an HR person. You could also get in through open source contributions.
Tech stacks nowadays are mostly React for front, .Net/Java for back. A lot of obsolete technology in the jobs, since the largest companies stayed around for a long time now.
hmm, the way Canada is bringing in tech immigrants, no wonder there more developers than jobs lol (I am also one of them, so hypocrisy 101, but I have experience in other countries and not just tech). But then the start up eco system seems not well supported (maybe I am don't know about startup things here), like I have not seen start up programs or symposiums etc in any college curriculum. It seems like the place has lot of potential but no long term planning, good time to study and wait for the clog clear up.
Startup programs?
Kind of like incubators
Ahh