This Job Market Sucks... and Here is the Number One Reason

Hang in there... it will get better.

[ballinspalding]

Experiencing this myself. Trying my hardest to break into a data analyst role. Got a degree in analytics, learning the skills, about to pick up the PL-300 but it's been a year and I've got no interviews. Not to mention I'm married so there's that added pressure of feeling like less of a man while I'm unemployed.

[geigertiger]

I'm currently a data engineer and my boss did tell the entire IT staff to talk about how scalable their role could become if the company grew (to predict how much to hire). Suspiciously the due date for submitting our reports is November 1st...so you're definitely onto something.

[d]

If job market scks in USA, then it does in Canada, India, Australia etc too. USA calls the shots in the tech world. I just hope that whoever wins (idc who does), can drive the growth again.

Companies have taken way too much advantage of this job market and shafted us tech workers.

[A_View_From_The_Shire]

Another reason is interest rates were historically low for a decade and then rapidly raised post-Coof. A lot of companies (especially those in Tech) don’t have the hiring luxury they once had. However, rates must come down to service national debt. Hang tight.

[Splash滴]

Got my degree in Computer Engineering (recent graduate, early this year), been getting some CompTIA certs like the Network +, plan on getting the CCNA next. Feels like I'm never enough in this economy. Happy to hear though that it's not just me experiencing this.

[Sam_Hue]

It won’t get any better from here.

The market would crash before that happens.

[thethiagosc]

Here in Brazil, we are fucked up like pow(fuckyou, 3), and the marginal remote jobs that used to appear for us, they are gone! Any marginal data engineer job is better than ours, because being an advanced data engineer here, you will receive at maximum 3K U$

[StanOko]

I'm curious, what do you think is the best tech role at the moment?

[forniteguruji]

As an intern I’m doing the job of a full time employee by they laid pff all the full timers

[jorgemendez]

Mike I am a python dev and right now I am doing both routes to get a ML job in the future, the DA route and Backend dev route because the job market is so bad that it is not guarantee that i am going to get da or backend job so im just doing both routes😂, right now I am learning SQL/databases and doing Python projects. I know its too much specially now that I am going to start learning PowerBI but I dont mind it because I love learning

[patrickchan]

true, I think there is knowledge and there are skills. One needs both to stay in a job. Unless AI advances and supplement the skills for us. Thanks ;-)

[LuisGonzalez-me]

hey Mike great video!, what do you think about databricks, is it a good platform for MLE engineers?, i heard it was initially created for Data Science and ML. Do you think it is worth learning it if you want to be a ML engineer? Thanks!

[tomcfearon]

Mike, what do you think about the AMS Promoted, Solutions Architect + ML Engineer Speciality route over the Google Data Engineer + Professional ML Engineer you have mentioned?

[ordinaryBrain]

not from US. so who will make the market better? biden?

[blondimlg]

Hello Mike,

I am 18 years old, and I aspire to become an ML Engineer one day. I have very little knowledge of computer science and am just beginning my journey, fresh out of school. My next step is to acquire a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and then pursue a role as a Data Analyst or something similar as a starting point. I know you're not a big fan of academia, and your answer to my question will probably be something like, "It doesn’t matter, pick what you want, " but I have to choose a minor alongside my major in Computer Science. The options are Computational Linguistics, Statistics, or Mathematics. Based on what I’ve heard from your channel, the main math needed for this role is applied statistics. But since a minor in Statistics wouldn't focus solely on applied aspects, would it still be the right move? Which one would you choose?

Best regards,
A fellow fan