Adobe executive seeks job for son after campus offer is withdrawn

Source : INDIA TODAY NEWS

The challenges faced by fresh engineering graduates in India’s technology sector have once again come under the spotlight after a senior Adobe executive publicly sought job opportunities for his son following the withdrawal of a campus placement offer. A LinkedIn post shared by the executive has gone viral across social media platforms, sparking conversations about the state of the software engineering job market and the growing uncertainty faced by fresh graduates. In the post, the Adobe leader revealed that his son, a Computer Engineering graduate from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, had received a campus placement offer from a major technology company. However, the offer was later withdrawn as part of a wider campus hiring rollback.

“A campus placement offer for my son, BE (Computer Engineering, Thapar College), has been withdrawn as part of a broader campus offer revocation by a leading tech company, and he is now seeking a full-time Software Engineering opportunity,” the executive wrote on LinkedIn while requesting referrals from his professional network.

The post may have remained limited to LinkedIn circles, but it gained wider attention after X user Anshika Aggarwal shared a screenshot of it on the platform. Her caption read, “If son of director at Adobe is facing this, then job market is really brutal.”

The post quickly struck a chord with social media users and has since attracted nearly 3.5 lakh views along with a lot of comments discussing the difficulties faced by freshers trying to enter the technology industry. Many users viewed the incident as a status of the current hiring environment. One commenter wrote, “The fresher job market is brutal and this is going to be the new normal. People have to move to different industries and find different opportunities.”

Another user suggested that young professionals should increasingly look beyond traditional employment opportunities. “I hope he would help his son to build business rather than relying on jobs and thats something is way forward for next generations. Hopefully he gets a good initial experience but his dad help me to build great business,” the person commented.

Others argued that the market now places greater emphasis on practical skills than academic qualifications. One user wrote, “Job market is brutal if you have no real skills. Degree to decent job pipeline is over and most people are still in denial, and resort to petty stuff like ‘AI layoff, youth unemployment due to policies’ etc.”

Another comment revealed how widespread the hiring slowdown appears to be, stating, “The market is so cooked that even the people with connections are posting ‘open to work.'”

Reports reveal software engineering jobs most exposed to AI

The discussion comes at a time when software engineering jobs are undergoing rapid changes due to the growing use of AI across companies. According to a recent CNN report, hiring managers are increasingly rethinking how they evaluate software engineering candidates as AI tools become capable of writing code, debugging programs, generating documentation and assisting with several day-to-day development tasks.

Industry experts told the publication that traditional coding interviews may no longer accurately measure a candidate’s ability to perform in modern software engineering roles where AI tools are becoming part of everyday workflows.

Stefan Mai, a former engineer at Meta and Amazon and co-founder of interview coaching platform Hello Interview, described the impact of AI on engineering recruitment by saying, “I would say AI has hit engineering interviewing like an atomic bomb.”

Technology companies are also integrating AI into software development at a growing pace. Executives from companies including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic have publicly discussed how AI coding tools are helping engineers complete tasks faster and focus more on decision-making and product development rather than writing every line of code manually.

Adding to the debate, a recent study by Anthropic found that software programming is among the occupations most exposed to AI. The research suggested that AI systems can already assist with 75 percent of the tasks commonly performed by programmers. However, the study does not suggest that programmers are being replaced outright. Instead, many experts believe the role is evolving, with engineers increasingly expected to guide AI systems, solve complex problems and make high-level technical decisions.

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SOURCE :- TIMES OF INDIA