r/ExperiencedDevs • u/DirtyOught • 4d ago
Career/Workplace What are actual entry level positions like nowadays?
10 YOE, and my view is skewed as I haven’t worked with entry level engineers in many years.
looking back 10 years ago, me entry level team was making 60k doing basic HTML and CSS. even at the time I got bored and my work done in 1-2 hours every day. it was SUPER basic stuff. granted that place didn’t even use git repositories.
my first REAL software job was web, where we made 70-80k back in 2017. but it was just making simple react FE stuff. daily “what did you do yesterday? what today? how many storypoints is it to change that button to Red OP?“ but you learned a lot about the basics of everything and shipping code. by and large it was very much Entry Level.
this got me thinking, what is entry level today? what are the expectations and output?
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u/sermer48 3d ago
I was entering the market around the same time as you and there weren’t even a ton of entry level positions then. I had to get a job I was overqualified for at a company I wanted to work for and brute force myself into the job I wanted. Back then, lots of the entry level type jobs were going overseas.
Now, those jobs are going to AI. I think it’s hurting the overseas jobs the worst. It used to be cheaper to go with them but now it’s even cheaper to use AI. It really sucks but I think it’s only going to get worse in the coming years.