Comment by starchild3001

I feel getting paid to write code doesn't work anymore (did it ever work?).

The bar in FAANG, which I've been luckily employed at for 9 yrs, is to i) identify an important business problem ii) propose a design to solve it iii) implement the design yourself or with the team iv) demonstrate solution and/or real world impact.

Coding, it turns out, is the easy part, which can be done by AIs as of 2025 :)

Identifying important business problems to solve, and translating those into engineering systems is still beyond the reach of AIs (luckily).

That said, human's job is getting harder everyday. Expectations go up every f'in year. The demands often look impossible (it turns out this is how you get the most out of people).

So best of luck! It's pretty tough out there. Too many new grads struggling. And relatively few jobs.

That said, this too shall pass. I've seen 3 major downturns since 2000, and this is just one of them. Boom and bust happens...