Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MicroWave@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨economics@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/uk_tech_grad_jobs/

The UK tech sector is cutting graduate jobs dramatically – down 46 percent in the past year, with another 53 percent drop projected, according to figures from the Institute of Student Employers (ISE).

The culprit? AI is already doing the entry-level work graduates used to perform like routine coding, data analysis, and basic digital tasks. Companies still need tech talent, but they’re hiring experienced workers instead of training newcomers.

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MattBlackAlien@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
So what happens when the experienced devs quit or retire… ?

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- 6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That’s the question that no AI-bro has answered so far. When I retire, I’ll spend my time writing simple open-source stuff for me and for those who still want to create stuff and solve problems.
  
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- hypnicjerk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  surely the plagiarism machine will have evolved itself into a superintelligent thinking machine by then.
  
  right?
  
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  - MattBlackAlien@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    By regurgitating its own slop ! By Jove, you’ve cracked it.
    
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- jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Honestly I think AI is a scape goat here. Tech has been doing layoffs and reducing staff since covid ended and I think they’re just rolling with the AI excuse to both make AI sound more competent and to take some heat off of them.
  
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- DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  On a realistic scale in 20 years AI doesn’t just pop it crashes every CEOs company that bet on it because AI is just a pattern recognition algorithm and its all just attempts at following the pattern it recognizes.
  
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- SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Same shit when we shipped the jobs in 2013 to code farms that had no fucking clue how to actually do dev work. It’ll come back in a few years. Give it no more than another 5 years of this shit and code will be so fucked production will grind to a halt requiring these idiots to rehire competent devs again, then the jr positions will follow.
  
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  - MattBlackAlien@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    This still assumes that there will still be competent devs who want to come back to work.
    
    What have they been doing for the last five years ? Presumably finding something else to pay the rent and/or provide fulfillment.
    
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- fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Who cares? Line go up good.
  Right?
  
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net00@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I could never find a mention of 46% drop in graduate hiring from the ISE pages linked in the article. Where are they getting this figure from?

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