SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Student developers were polled via 80 spring 2016 hackathons to asses how they feel about their career options. Some of the key finding were:
- 83% of students said they were looking for fulfilling careers, rather than simply for jobs.
- Students plan to stay an average of 2.9 years at their first full-time job.
- Students predict that they'll stay at later jobs for 5 years on average.
- Students expect to earn between $70–150K right out of school.
Details of the Devpost study can be found here.
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else
follows in the same way.
-- Alan J. Perlis
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2016, @10:40PM
It's a free agent economy and most folks aren't used to that. A substantial portion of everyone's time has to be devoted to skills training, and possibly education (formal or self study) for not only their current gig, not only their next gig, but looking ahead as many as 10-15 years.
Those who don't do that are like the ones who have the opportunity to contribute to a 401K, but don't. Eventually they'll wish they had.