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I think your brother is just one bad apple. There's lots of hard working kids. On my team at Amazon we had two interns convert to permanent. One ended up leaving for family reasons (mom was hospitalized and needed to provide care, which sucks for her career). The other one is a go getter who's still here, I'm not a fan of some of her work but she's still here and she works hard.
The reality is, in tech, you aren't getting in the door without having done coop during school or willing to put in the time to do an internship. It was like that when I started in 2012, and it's only gotten worst.
It will continue to get worse as projects in general are too complex and budgets too tight for teams/companies to give juniors a chance.
AI has gotten good enough to replace a lot of internship level work, which makes it less likely for companies to hire interns and juniors, most positions are going to be for intermediate or up.
The short sighted-ness of the industry to not bring up the next crop of developers is not lost on me, but that's a whole other can of worms.
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