The SignalFire State of Tech Talent Report - 2025
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SignalFire’s 2025 State of Tect Talent Report reveals a sharp reset in tech hiring—entry-level roles are vanishing, elite AI labs like Anthropic are winning the retention war, and new power centers are reshaping where talent thrives.
  • Big Tech: New grads now account for just 7% of hires, with new hires down 25% from 2023 and over 50% from pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
  • Startups: New grads make up under 6% of hires, with new hires down 11% from 2023 and over 30% from pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
  • orcaAEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    Can’t eventually have senior engineers without giving junior engineers a chance, so good luck with that. I’ve got nearly 2 decades under my belt and I’m ready to leave.

    • stealth_cookies@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      This is definitely a problem in sectors that are boom/bust. You have senior engineers ready to retire and nobody is ready to move up into their positions because there just aren’t any intermediate level engineers in the industry.

      • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Tech execs when the shortage hits: I just had a brilliant idea! Let’s just give untrained junior vibe-coding engineers the power of senior engineers, and even more AI tools. Problem solved forever, bonus please!