It is hard to get into the tech industry right now. It is hard to get into any industry right now. The job market just straight up sucks.

@johnvoorhees2331

3 ай бұрын

1.) During Covid IT hired way too many people) 2.) Tech is going through an evolution. AI is changing everything. (Cant put the genie back in bottle) IT softskill and people that use scripting languages soon will be getting AI "helpers" . Think of it as on the job traing...for the AI before it takes the job

@anthonyscott3758

3 ай бұрын

This. If you are already in the industry, you have a huge advantage. As a recent CS grad, all the "entry level" jobs I go for, are also being applied to by people with 5-6 years exp. Employers/interviewers have politely insinuated not to expect to hear back from them...they have plenty of options from people with experience.

When did "Tech" get to mean only software or coding? I am an electronics design engineer and have been for over 40 years. I hate to say this but "electronics" is "Tech" too. You can shoot me for saying this but for many years now, it has been easier to get into software than hardware because, for one thing, if you compile something up enough times, eventually, you can get something functional. Most of the time. In hardware, you get one shot until your PCB or ASIC comes back and then the real work begins (it's called debug and don't let anyone tell you that their hardware always comes back perfect on the first try...they are lying). Also, in hardware you need to be where the hardware IS and that involves some kind of a lab, not your coffee shop. But, nowadays, with the internet being as ubiquitous as it is, a software position can be done from anywhere in the world, like Hanoi Vietnam, Mumbai India or Bumfuck Egypt (and who among us has not been to "Bumfuck" or BFE?). That means that the cheapest labor will always have an advantage, so that if you live in Silicon Valley you need to come up with some outrageous amount of money just to have a roof over your head whereas if you live in BFE, the cost of living is much cheaper. Therefore, there will ALWAYS be layoffs in the expensive cost of living cities.

@deanschulze3129

2 ай бұрын

I remember when hardware engineers were more in demand than software engineers, circa early 1990s. Since then it seems like software has become more in demand. I can't remember where I saw this analysis, but each hardware design project can require multiple software implementations that can run on it. And this leads to more demand for software engineers than hardware engineers. Software does not have the barrier to entry that hardware has, and so it can be done from anywhere. Anywhere there are developers with the right skills, that is. And that isn't just anywhere. Senior developers in India make good wages because they are worth it. The labor arbitrage isn't what it used to be. You can hire semi-anonymous drones cheaply, but they can't produce even relatively simple software systems that work. They produce bloatware that barely works, and can't be saved. You still get what you pay for.

Thank you for the video. I feel like every year people ask the question is it too late to get into tech. I feel like I am just at the start of my journey and what I learned is there is not an ideal time to get into tech. The best thing to do is jump in and see where learning takes you

As someone who got my first help desk job in 1999 fresh out of high school and has held various tech roles over the years, this too shall pass. I’ve seen the ups and downs throughout the years but I’ve never seen a flood of people get into the industry like the last few years thanks to all the social media lies influencers pushed about making 6 figures with no experience and no degree, only a scam bootcamp course. Those people will fade away as most already has

Thx!!

Love it!

You don't choose a career only for money or market trends but because you love what you do.. the rest doesn't really matter at least to me.

@TiffInTech

3 ай бұрын

THIS! This is how you will grow and have a long and great career!

@thebunsenburner

3 ай бұрын

I agree, but unfortunately my dream of gardening for a living won't give me enough savings to buy a house. Just wanna build trails and dig, you know? Wanna live in the forest. Instead I code in React. Yuckiessssss

@ulyssesn.juarez153

2 ай бұрын

I totally agree, but my industry (where, I work right now) is changing so fast and in some many ways, that give impression that I would not make it, at the end of this year (2024), been always curious about this, learn it is a basic skill nowadays, I confess just to heard about it, is like a totally different reality, that is eating mine, someway, somehow... that I barely understand, need to get educated, any advices for this novice???

@Deepak__Ghimire

21 күн бұрын

Same mindset of mine❤❤!!

@perceptron9834

4 күн бұрын

😂

That's what I was thinking. People think of tech when it comes to google or facebook but banks, accounting firms and almost any industry has tech in it. I also think AI is being ridiculously overhyped. It will be just a new tool, a really good one per say. Remember when we were supposed to have tons autonomous vehicles and delivery drones by now. Right.

@keyser021

3 ай бұрын

AI is being hyped right now by investors who are under the gun to syphon trillions from the US economy just in time to learn how to make GPU chips from Chinese engineers from the ROC at NVIDIA coming to AZ before the Philippines starts a shooting war with mainland China and NVIDIA goes boom and the AI hype goes with it.

@JH-hy7ck

2 ай бұрын

My favorite, are the folks who swear by AI without understanding it has limitations and can be error-prone. Taking every response at face value and considering it god-like. I laugh at the people in grad school who copy/paste their essays (and sometimes I don't see them again).

Love hearing your candid thoughts. I'm a parent and your opinion helps me know how to advise my daughter with her college major. Thanks!

I have been thinking the same. I am intrigued tech in industries like finance and healthcare. What do you think about the demand for Ai consultants

Even if it wasn't financially viable or there was a lack of opportunity, it would still be my hobby for sure.

Thanks sister for information ❤

I thought about the same, why to learn code if it can be done with chatgpt,,,

Currently signed up for a certificate program paid through work to learn SW Application development. Want to gain some technical background so that if I do go back into tech in Tech I can have rapport with the SW Dev team as they begin implementing things collected from the voice of the customer. From a former Product Mgmt team member.

Very informative video about tech ❤❤❤ keep making this type of videos great work

I am not worried about AI taking over. Instead I am embracing it. You are 100% correct, tech is everywhere so there are more jobs created, not less. Furthermore if it does come to computers being able to program themselves then there will be other jobs that will be open. When one door closes 10 others open up. Look back through history and you will see a long list of jobs that don't exist anymore because of tech ology, but at the same time a plethora of new jobs were created. I am not worried as long as I continue to learn new things, adapt and remain flexible.

I’m leveraging it as we speak and all day every day. Early investors win.

@blackam41

3 ай бұрын

What’s the ticker?

I ask myself this pretty much everyday at the moment, even after being a software engineer for 15+ years. Ai coupled with the rate at which tech is changing at the moment, it seems impossible to stay relevant for much longer!

I wanted to apply for a vr degree, but now I feel like I have no idea what to do...😂

Curious to get your take on this. Do you feel like tech is still a good industry to be in?

@tex346

3 ай бұрын

not while vvvvvvvvvvviiiiiiiisssssssaaaaaaaaassssss continue 400K to foreign students on post graduation vvvvvvvvvvviiiiiiiisssssssaaaaaaaaassssss annually

@catalinagalan

3 ай бұрын

It’s an interesting question. I finished my bootcamp last june and I am still job hunting! It is scary, but also I feel is the whole job market. I love this field and have kept on learning and working in projects, networking, etc. but I hear a lot of “we aren’t hiring juniors right now”, which has made me doubt my path. However, I do think it’s worth it, if you love it. Some people might be deterred if they have other choices, which is fine by me, less competition lol. In the end, whenever I feel super discouraged I remind myself that once upon a time I was a musician, and bou oh boy, it cannot be harder than that, that’s for sure! It is only a matter of time until I get my shot to break through into the industry 🤞🏼👩🏻‍💻🖤

@Ynerson9003

3 ай бұрын

I feel like after learning programming, networking, computer fundamentals all while working my other job and devoting most my spare time to this. It’s been disheartening and I really don’t know what to do. I mean why keep advancing skills if ai can do it instantly?

@catalinagalan

3 ай бұрын

@@Ynerson9003 i hear you! Like I said in my previous comment, personally I will keep trying until I get through, however, I do believe that a shift in strategy might be necessary. Web/software development is changing, more than thinking that it will stop being necessary, I think we need to try to learn about the new tendencies in the industry and wherever possible, educate ourselves in that direction. Now this is not an easy path as it is filled with uncertainty and it might require some backtracking and redirecting, but I guess if you really want to be part of this industry that’s what it takes now. Undoubtedly the market will shift again and jobs will become plentiful one day, but what jobs? That’s the real question. It feels uphill and tough, but we can make it! 💪🏼

@tex346

3 ай бұрын

@@Ynerson9003 And on top of all that what business domain knowledge do you have .. construction , marketing, accounting ? Lacking that I would go learn something applicable to small business.. MS office development...many new capabilities around this ecosystem such as python. python automation in excel is wow

Dave Plummer put up a great video on whether AI will make programmer's obsolete. Summary, any industry is going to have employees with skills on a bell curve. For programming, AI will likely replace those at the bottom of the curve. So, if you are passionate about tech and will spend the time to get good, it is a great place. If you are looking to tech as the latest way to get paid for little effort, look elsewhere.

I am working on new industries.

For people who do have tech skills, now is probably the right time to look for opportunities to use those skills in something different. There are lots of jobs being posted, yes, but jobs posted does not equal hiring. Unfortunately, in the US, the layoffs in December 2023 and January 2024 undid basically all of the employment growth that happened in 2023. As tech orgs make cuts to their workforce in order to free up budget to hire for people with AI skills, the percentage of people let go is often double the tech industry's annual growth rate. My ballpark estimate is that only half the people who've been laid off will find something in 12 months or less, because that is the maximum capacity for opportunity in the field this year. The skills we developed may still have value, but skills alone won't land jobs, and for around half of us, literally nothing will land the kind of jobs we're used to working. It may not be time to walk away from those skills completely, but it is probably time to think about applying those skills to different jobs. I mean, think even beyond a tech org at a non-tech company. Think beyond doing the freelance version of a job you've done in the past. What are some totally unfamiliar jobs where your skills are needed?

Great video!! I am a data analyst for US Airforce and have done some work for the IRS. A piece of advice I would give to upcoming devs is to not be "stove piped". For example some people will l learn python and expect to be able to work anywhere. Python may check a box but also look at other soft skills and what other applications companies are using in their tech stack and work on learning those. Hope this helps. 😎

And if not tech, then what? I really don't know what to think... P.S. Happy celebrating March8 ❤😊🌹

After being SWE for ~15 years I'm feeling sort of bored and tired by tech. I would try something else if not for the fact that it's the only I can do and other industries pay less and look even worse. So ... long live programming.

Thanks from pakistan You are great teacher and your teaching method ❤❤❤

I want to give my opinion (as AI is going to disrupt the job market in many ways example: a cycle >>people lose jobs >>effect is less spending>>business can't grow)

Yes AI will definitely replace some Tech Jobs. But not all! Stay Strong Tech Fam ✊🏼😎

I think building tech will become less important because it will be AI assisted. I think understanding how to implement tools will be more important.

That is so funny long time are not only 7 years. In my company you will be considered a junior developer, with 7 year programming experience. But maybe usa is just different LOL

We tend to fear what we dont understand. Most of the news regarding the future are not only for clicks, but they come from people that truly dont understand about the subejct they are writing so they are bringing their personal vision of something that I doubt they really tried to learn. And that's where smart people make money, 70-80% of people in the world are going to take maybe, 3-5 years to understand all of this, on the other hand the other 30-20% of people are just making it happen.These kind of people are wasting their time fearing the future instead of adapting theirselves as soon as possible.

On the one hand, I can see Jensen's point. I spent 3 years studying AI/ML from simple linear regression all the way to coding my own seq2seq transformer from scratch. Today, everything I need to do has already been done by others through Hugging Face, and they probably did a much better job than I could. However, here's my rebuttal question to Jensen: if no one bothers to learn how to code anymore because AI is just going to do the coding for us, who's going to code the AI? P.S. No, I am not worried about my job security.

I just had a "conversation" with "an" AI, I think we are goiong there...

Hi, I'm from São Paulo! Good Very good! ABRAÇO FORTE DE URSO!

Thanks for the reassuring words! All over the media you keep hearing about how AI is gonna take over our jobs, and we're gonna be replaced etc. I'm studying to be a data analyst and I use apps like Julius AI to help me with my work. I don't think AI is gonna replace me, AI can't do my in-person presentations for me or find clients. I think we'll be working with AI, not be replaced by it!

Tiffin, I wish to work with you

So such a loaded question... IT soft skills and people that use scripting languages soon will be getting AI "helpers" . Think of it as on the job training...for the AI before it takes the job All the softskill (non programmer) All Industries should be worried(2-4 years)

I THINK YOU FORGOT ABOUT HOW BAD THE JOB MARKET IS RIGHT NOW

Yes, it's still worth it even without watching the video.

I don't know that people need to learn to code AI does that 100% for me I give it the idea it gives me the code The problem is regular people don't know how to make code work so you smart people are still needed lol

I think that is the point of developing Artificial Intelligence products, to take over human's job and give it to robots. NVIDIA is telling the truth, what matters is the end product, and for business they only thinking of making profit, making money. Canadians know this better since Canada nation was built originally as a trading nation where almost everyone is doing business to make profit.

FWIW For a couple of years I have been (trying) to advise cs staff on Reddit subs with career advice. I have now given that up : exposure to the latest AI with their reasoning and coding abilities has convinced me that AI will eliminate many roles, especially for the less driven or less capable. Maybe 20% will survive : say 10% AI-adept top software developers plus various support staff. In view of this, I now find the oceans of inexperienced Leetcode-focused FAANG wannabees very sad. They simply have no idea of what is to come over the next 4 or 5 years. It's like giving saddle making advice to huge groups of keen trainees, whilst knowing that the new fangled motor car is about to arrive in stores in the next few months.

I'm only still striving to get into cybersecurity because I lost everything paying for the materials, bootcamp scams, the legit bootcamps, the certifications, and finally, sending out hundreds of applications. I'll brute force my way in at this point. Will I ever respect the field? Never!! At this point, it's check and supposedly a stable career. Well, allegedly.

@Ynerson9003

3 ай бұрын

Why won’t you respect the field, and why still go in?

@Ynerson9003

3 ай бұрын

What certs have you acquired?

the interest rates are high so the companies don't hire at the same rate

Use a dictionary and look f. e. for "hello" and you'll get a few explanations, use two dictionaries and you can have a "conversation" in your mind or with someone, with all the possible consequences. So using AI bares some more complicity and/or complexity and even more possibilities of interaction... I think AI shouldn't be an excuse for human actions or cancelling development or not seeing the problem of inclusion, especially political and geopolitical... let's pray that AI would/could ease our minds... because there will always be a little bit of these existential resistance a living being has to face, therefore going into the nature and exploring is destiny for being alive... first utilities so say the paleontologist don't have a continuous history of development more like a patchwork.. (I didn't mean to be rude yesterday..)

Use a dictionary and look f. e. for "hello" and you'll get a few explanations, use two dictionaries and you can have a "conversation" in your mind or with someone, with all the possible consequences. So using AI bares some more complicatednees and/or complexity and even more possibilities of interaction... I think AI shouldn't be an excuse for human actions or cancelling development or not seeing the problem of inclusion, especially political and geopolitical... let's pray that AI would/could ease our minds... because there will always be a little bit of these existential resistance a living being has to face, therefore going into the nature and exploring is destiny for being alive... first utilities so say the paleontologist don't have a continuous history of development more like a patchwork.. (I didn't mean to be rude yesterday..)

I think if you really have the passion for tech and have great soft skills then you will be able to beat AI 😂 in any postion

Visit the AI subreddits and do your own due diligence. Tech is screwed. The advancements are unbelievable. Tech is advancing to the point that it only needs 3-5 people to run what it hired 20 people to do. Not only will you be competing with new grads, you be competing with ones who were already laid off. Didnt even bring up outsourcing to other countries. No tech in any industry, even in health care is safe. I work for a huge medical company and half of our IT department and some of the upper white collar jobs were eliminated.

not ai.... visas

Sorry but I completely disagree. I work 13years in IT already and AI changed it all. I want to be there as long as I can, but it's obvious that it's not gonna me another 13 years. That's sad because I like what I do and I specialist with many experience but it's reality. Yes, tech gonna be everywhere but it's gonna be like using your smartfone, almost everyone will do it. So you won't be need a lot of knowledge to it so it's gonna pay little and won't be much fun without programming etc. I'm not recommend anyone to start learning IT now. This time has passed in my opinion.

@shresthification

3 ай бұрын

But a singer is paid huge for a concert, and even many gully people also sing good but won't valued because they are not in that profession. Similarly you can buit peices of code through ai and then plug all of them and the architecture of the whole code need a person definitely, so there will be need of programer Code is already available on stack over flow from many years . Ai add more easy access to it

@lubimyrosliny

3 ай бұрын

@@shresthification Yes, but now people outside the industry won't need to know how to code to create software. There will be just plain language to create something. I don't think that programmers dissapear but there will be much less jobs for them. Mostly for companies who builds AI tools. I think that there still left couple years before it happend, but I don't recommend new people getting into IT. It's just so many years with uncertain future, pressure to constant learning but without guarantee of anything. Better become doctor or something like that.

The tech industry is not worth getting into anymore.The thing u are talking about is tech slowly making it's way into other sectors n industries.Tech industry has lived its life n is pretty much on its last legs.The honeymoon period for tech industry is as such pretty much over.Healthcare n Energy are the sectors worth getting into right now looking at the future

@michaelrobinson8382

2 ай бұрын

Would that include AI/data scientist and consultants in those industries you mentioned

😀

@TiffInTech

3 ай бұрын

Cheers!!

AI is just a tool. Nothing more. They probably prepare us for VR or something revolutionary which will be very complex and very difficult to create and maintain so people will need some help to develop apps. Don't forget that companies which produce LLMs are just software companies. They need software to make money.

After AGI adopted by world defenetly no worth

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@TiffInTech

3 ай бұрын

yay!! So happy you are here! Happy Friday!