[corliss_island]

This!

My first job out of university was working on an embedded Java runtime, with a group of peers from said university. Which sounds similar to what Virtualise.sh is doing.

Now, 20 years later? Tech lead on a Typescript/Flutter/AWS internal system.

In some ways I'd be excited to write container orchestration logic, or hack on a hypervisor. There's precious little of that work available, especially so in a small country like mine (NZ). My CV is crazy enough: being burnt isn't the issue, just finding the work is.

The cynical part of me wonders if the other reason to hire people straight out of university is that they're cheap...

(throwaway account, my CV is bad enough already)

[johnnyanmac]

cheap, moldable, and not distracted by families will always be a strong combination for niches you can't really learn otherwise. Not a lot of people will take a "downgrade" in their career to work on some passionate or cutting edge tech.