Ask HN: Is your company still hiring junior engineers?

In the past year we could observer Coding Agents proliferation. They are more popular than ever.

I'm studying IT and want to enter the market. Along with a friend from school we observed that it's very difficult to land a job interview and that there seem to be quite a few openings for Junior Engs. My case would be junior Linux admins, for my friend - junior data engineers.

I hear from many friends outside the industry, that according to people they know in IT, some companies have stopped hiring juniors. It's just better to use an LLM instead. This would correspond with the reduced amount of junior positions advertised on the market.

Can you share your experiences? Does your company still hire juniors? What do your friends in the industry say?

Maybe I'm wrong and the market oversaturation has pushed most of positions "underground", where people get hired through their network, and the position is never advertised. It might also be due to me only looking in Trondheim, which is not really that big of a city (150k, but considerable technical market due to the biggest technical university in the country being located here).

Previously asked (2024): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40905701