Hard disagree. Every company across the spectrum I’ve worked for couldn’t care less about a portfolio.

My first tech job out of college was $55k.

Average in my area for new grads at best is like $85k.

My highest paying was $195k as a Senior and my average is probably $150k as a Senior / Lead.

None of this was big tech though.

Eh.

+1 for mullvad

This.

At my jobs, AI is just scratching the surface. But they’re slowly implementing entire coding bot swarms, so a Product person can report a bug, it gets reviewed by an agent, assessed by an agent, fixed by an agent, and tested by another agent - then PR’d for a dev to review.

This hurts the junior level.

I’d be happy to review your resume and code samples and provide feedback if you want.

Nursing is huuuuge. My nurse friend with a doctorate just landed a $250k base job with 10 weeks paid vacation and a slew of other benefits. Wild.

Plumbing is huge too. If I ever need one, they’re booked out like 3+ months unless you want to pay an emergency fee which is like double or triple.

I, too, am raising some livestock. We’ll see where it goes. But at least to me it feels more connected and real.

I’d love to hear your experience around this and what sector or jobs this assisted, because more data is great.

But in my experience across 25+ jobs ranging from startups to fortune 500/250/100…I have never encountered a hiring process that would care about this.

I would love to be proven wrong though.

3-5 years ago my answer would’ve been different. I could trip and find a job offer. I was getting job offers by email essentially without interviewing.

About a year ago that completely dried up. I can’t even remember the last email I got that was more than recruiter spam. My friend who used to also trip into jobs (7 at peak) has been hunting for 3 months now with no luck.

But…servers and data centers and stuff, you’re probably onto something. Wishing you the best.