{"id":954342,"date":"2025-08-12T10:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954342"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:04:25","slug":"goodbye-165000-tech-jobs-student-coders-seek-work-at-chipotle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/12\/goodbye-165000-tech-jobs-student-coders-seek-work-at-chipotle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, $165,000 tech jobs, student coders seek work at Chipotle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the early 2010s, a parade of billionaires, tech executives and even US presidents has urged young people to learn coding, arguing that the tech skills would help bolster students&#8217; job prospects as well as the economy. Tech companies promised computer science graduates high salaries and all manner of perks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Typically their starting salary is more than $100,000,&#8221; plus $15,000 hiring bonuses and stock grants worth $50,000, Brad Smith, a top Microsoft executive, said in 2012 as he kicked off a company campaign to get more high schools to teach computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the early 2010s, a parade of billionaires, tech executives and even US presidents has urged young people to learn coding, arguing that the tech skills would help bolster students&#8217; job prospects as well as the economy. Tech companies promised computer science graduates high salaries and all manner of perks. &#8220;Typically their starting salary is more than $100,000,&#8221; plus $15,000 hiring bonuses and stock grants worth $50,000, Brad Smith, a top Microsoft executive, said in 2012 as he kicked off a company campaign to get more high schools to teach computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}