Tech Culture Reporter

Rya Jetha

Referral bonuses, luxury retreats, and secrecy — startups are doing everything to land the right founding engineer. 

As CEOs mandate “AI fluency," workers fear being replaced by the very tools they’re told to embrace. 

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


Linkd’s ranking system was meant to be a publicity stunt, until a batch of student coders got their hands on it.

As big companies seek to replace human work with code, falling salaries and long job hunts are increasingly common. 