Which Path Should Fresh Engineers Take to Secure a Placement?

N. Raghuraman, Management Guru

It is a very difficult period to become a software engineer, especially for starters, isn’t it? If someone expresses such sympathy to you with a sarcastic smile on your face, you should also smile more and reply, ‘Thank you for your concern.’ But I know how to enter this difficult market and get good placement, just like Abhimanyu entered Chakravyuh.

The person in front will not even be able to say that he did not know how to go out, because who wants to go out after getting a job in a company like Amazon? This is exactly what my friend’s son did, who is going to pass out this year. When many tech companies like Meta Platforms, Coinbase, Block and Cloudflare were announcing job cuts under AI restructuring plan, this young man kept his entire focus on Amazon. ‘How to get a job in such a tough market?’

Instead of asking such general questions to the counselors, he directly asked, ‘What should be done to get entry in Amazon?’ He never worried about salary, position or location. He said to himself, ‘First I will enter the company, then I will surprise the top management with my speed and understanding of AI.’ He started putting up such posters around him – ‘In April 2026, job postings for IT and Computer Science have increased by 14.2% year-on-year.’ His second poster read, ‘AI still makes many mistakes in coding, so I can provide quality assurance services.’

This poster, which was used as wallpaper on the mobile, helped him in the interview. When asked ‘What mistakes does AI make and how can you help?’ So he answered with full confidence and got the job. Recently, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman also publicly said that like previous years, the company will recruit 11 thousand software engineering interns and entry-level employees in 2026.

He estimates that if the Iran war ends by August, the IT job market will expand again for the first time after Covid. This is when the company is reducing 16 thousand jobs. After talking to the experts, the young man had understood that even today tech companies need such people who can help the company grow faster.

“It’s an interesting paradox,” Andy Challenger, chief revenue officer at outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas, said in an interview. People who can create programs with the help of AI, connect different parts of the company and provide all these services through coding are in demand more than ever. Because, they can do a lot of work very quickly. No wonder that’s why the young man was talking about ‘speed’.

In another media report, Aaron Levy, CEO of cloud service provider Box, said that he thinks many tech companies are recruiting more engineers, but now new types of technical roles are needed.

He wrote on ‘X’ that now new roles are emerging. They themselves are hiring someone who can integrate AI systems into the entire technical infrastructure of the company, because implementing AI is quite complex. He is confident that every bank, pharmaceutical company, healthcare service provider and every manufacturer is going to recruit ‘implementing agents’ in large numbers.

The bottom line is that Don’t pay attention to negative news like job losses. Keep the focus on how to get entry in a particular company and what wonders you can do by going there. Then see how despite being a fresh graduate, you become the most important person in the company.

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