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Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out


New grads are being increasingly excluded from a job market that prefers automation and more seasoned workers.

Tech firms dramatically ramped up hiring, giving unprecedented economic power to workers at all levels, and the broad acceptance of hybrid and remote work widened the pool of potential employers. Tech’s big anxiety: fewer jobs, lower pay, more AI The draw of attending UC Berkeley or Stanford has long been the access they provide to the job- and wealth-creation machine of nearby Silicon Valley. James O’Brien, a computer science professor at UC Berkeley who advises startups, said it used to be common for seniors, fresh out of summer internships, to receive five-figure sign-on bonuses on top of six-figure job offers from multiple Big Tech companies.

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