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		rightbyte 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Young graduates are facing an employment crisis Interesting how approximately 6-7% unemployment rate among new SWE graduates translates to such gloomy anecdotes going around in this post.

naysunjr 8 months ago [–]

6-7% of 1+ million software engineers (according to BLS) is a lot of actual people.

Stats have ground truth underlying them. 6%-7% is less text than the big numbers popular for brevity. But it’s just mathematical euphemism for a real count.

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