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Engineering Graduates and the Employment Crisis of 2025: A Brief Summary

Engineering Graduates and the Employment Crisis of 2025: A Brief Summary

Tags: AI, LLM, Tech Job Market, Entry Level Jobs, Junior, Hiring

The article and related reports describe a drastic reduction in opportunities for Junior specialists in software development and engineering in 2025. The main reason is the massive adoption of artificial intelligence tools.

Main theses

1. The disappearance of entry-level jobs

  • Drop in hiring: Companies have reduced graduate hiring by 25-50% compared to previous years. In some sectors (for example, IT services and finance), the drop reaches 50%+.
  • Routine automation: AI now performs tasks that juniors used to learn: writing template code, basic testing, documentation, and fixing simple bugs. Companies no longer see the economic point of hiring people for this job.

2. Even elite graduates have problems.

  • Diplomas from top universities (including Stanford and MIT) no longer guarantee employment. Graduates who have spent years studying fundamental programming find that their "coding" skills have been devalued.
  • The competition has grown many times over: hundreds of candidates are now applying for one junior position.

3. "Shadow AI" and the skill gap

  • Universities do not have time to adapt their programs. Students are taught to write code from scratch, whereas the market requires the ability to edit, validate, and integrate code created by AI (AI-assisted development).
  • Many graduates are forced to master AI tools on their own, as universities often ignore or ban them.

4. Social and economic impacts

  • Lower salaries: Those who manage to find a job often receive lower-salary offers due to the oversupply of candidates on the market.
  • Change of profession: The number of software engineers leaving for blue-collar jobs, gig economics, or temporary jobs is growing, as AI cannot replace humans there yet.

Output

The job market for engineers in 2025 is undergoing a structural shift. The era of "easy entry into IT" through courses or basic education is over. Now beginners are expected to be productive at the level of a Middle specialist from the first day of work, thanks to the use of AI tools.

A source:
Rest of World: Engineering graduates are struggling to get jobs as AI usage spikes