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What Student Developers Want

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday May 19 2016, @03:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the that-isn't-too-ridiculous dept.

scruffybeard writes:

Student developers were polled via 80 spring 2016 hackathons to asses how they feel about their career options. Some of the key finding were:

  1. 83% of students said they were looking for fulfilling careers, rather than simply for jobs.
  2. Students plan to stay an average of 2.9 years at their first full-time job.
  3. Students predict that they'll stay at later jobs for 5 years on average.
  4. Students expect to earn between $70–150K right out of school.

Details of the Devpost study can be found here.

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  • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday May 19 2016, @07:16PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Thursday May 19 2016, @07:16PM (#348451)

    Some [soylentnews.org] on this board feel that the best solution to the problem that I know about [soylentnews.org] is "know fallacy" (I think they were mis-using the term in that post).

    Sure they won't get $70-150K/year out to school, but they can still put food on the table while looking for their fulling career. I strongly suspect there will still be demand for jobs, because most geeks are not that interested in the business side of things.

    The big unknown for basic income for me is how many people will be happy to just game all day instead of doing something (I perceive to be) more useful? I have a feeling people won't be doing "nothing". Doing nothing leads to boredom, which can lead to violence/property destruction.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2016, @07:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2016, @07:49PM (#348470)

    It's even uglier than that. You get people living in what amounts to penury, making poor economic choices on top of that, with vast amounts of time on their hands - it breeds a criminal underclass, angry and resentful of people who have more despite punitive taxes paying for the money they're getting for free.

    But that's OK. It's still better than the alternative.