[spacemadness]

People have been asking the executive class this for a long while now: why don’t you care about training? Their response has ever been silence or threats or that’s what school is for. Do it on your own time, after the 50+ hours we demand from you. Some places get it and had a proper pipeline to train. A vast majority do not. And now they give us this. Great bunch of folks.

[coolThingsFirst]

Basically the idea is become a senior at your own expense. Work for years without pay and only then get a job if and only if the new AI models by that time hasn't made mid or senior level engineers redundant as well.

[stalfosknight]

…but how?

If no one will employ you to formally give you a verifiable senior title, how exactly is that supposed to happen?

[coolThingsFirst]

By working for free.

That's basically what this field is turning into.