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Although AI companies are soaring to multibillion-dollar valuations, job prospects in the tech industry are growing murkier. Computer programming employment in the U.S. is at its lowest level since 1980 as companies increasingly automate tasks. Some firms like Anthropic are already using AI for 100% of coding.<\/p>\n
The speed of change has left even top tech leaders struggling to predict what comes next. Yamini Rangan, the CEO of\u00a0a $15 billion software company, HubSpot, admits she doesn\u2019t know what jobs will look like in an AI-enabled future\u2014even in as little as two years from now.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs things evolve every decade, new jobs will emerge,\u201d Rangan said recently on the Silicon Valley Girl<\/em> podcast. \u201cYou can\u2019t even plan for a job that will be there 10 years from now, or 20 years from now, or even two years from now.\u201d<\/p>\n For Rangan, that career uncertainty isn\u2019t new. Before becoming CEO, she served as the chief customer officer of HubSpot, and previously at Dropbox\u2014roles that didn\u2019t even exist when she graduated with her MBA decades ago, the executive noted.<\/p>\n So when her college freshman son told her he wanted to study computer science, Rangan pushed him to pursue his passion\u2014despite the growing narrative that \u201ccoding is dead.\u201d Studying technology isn\u2019t just about mastering today\u2019s technical skills, it\u2019s about learning how to think, she told her Gen Z kid.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat you can do is learn how to think, how to break down and solve problems, and how to ask good questions,\u201d the HubSpot CEO said. \u201cIf you can do those things, education is incredibly worthwhile.\u201d<\/p>\n She advised budding workers to go deep into their work, instead of being a generalist. If her son wants to pursue graduate school or further specialized training, she said she\u2019s \u201call for it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDepth in an area, combined with learning how to learn, is what really matters,\u201d Rangan added.\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite widespread layoffs across the tech sector, Rangan revealed that\u00a0HubSpot is still hiring\u2014particularly in research & development and sales. The company currently has more than 250 open roles worldwide, boasting salaries as high as $400,000.<\/p>\n But standing out in an increasingly competitive tech job market requires more than technical know-how. Rangan said that she looks for candidates with what she calls a \u201cscientist\u2019s mindset.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI look for people who are comfortable experimenting\u2014having a hypothesis, proving the hypothesis is right or wrong versus saying there\u2019s a set path,\u201d Rangan said.<\/p>\n Curiosity and a willingness to go deep also matter, especially when it comes to understanding customers.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cFor AI to be effective, you have to be close to the ground. You have to know what parts of the workflow are broken, what parts of the workforce can actually get value from AI,\u201d Rangan told the Silicon Valley Girl<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n \u201cMy focus is, Don\u2019t just use AI for the sake of AI, use it to solve real problems for customers. Can you ask the right questions? Can you stay curious enough to uncover what truly matters?\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Knowing how to embrace AI will be especially important for young workers who take initiative, according to Andrew Seaman, a LinkedIn jobs and career development expert.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile the job market is tough for career starters right now, as entry level work changes, there\u2019s a real opportunity for candidates to lean into in-demand skills like AI literacy,\u201d Seaman previously told Fortune<\/em>. \u201cThe great thing about these tools is that they really are pretty accessible. You don\u2019t need to go back to school or learn code to stand out.\u201d<\/p>\n And despite uncertainty over the future of work, overcoming adversity is the ultimate rite of passage for successful people, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know how to do it [but] for all of you Stanford students, I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering,\u201d Huang told Stanford Graduate School of Business students in 2024. \u201cGreatness comes from character, and character isn\u2019t formed out of smart people\u2014it\u2019s formed out of people who suffered.\u201d<\/p>\n To stay ahead in the fast-moving tech industry, Rangan embraces a demanding schedule.<\/p>\n All of her workdays begin around 6 a.m.\u2014with meetings starting at 7 a.m.\u2014and some days stretch as late as 11 p.m. But she still makes time to find some version of work-life balance.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rangan carves out Friday night and all of Saturday as protected personal time. She spends it walking with her family, doing yoga, meditating, and reading\u2014rituals she says help her avoid burnout.<\/p>\n Sunday, however, is a different story. Rather than dreading the end of the weekend, she uses the day for focused, self-directed work\u2014partly because she enjoys the quiet.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not scared of Sundays. I enjoy it because it\u2019s my time,\u201d Rangan said on an episode of The Grit<\/em> podcast last year. \u201cI get to decide what I\u2019m learning, what I\u2019m doing, what I\u2019m thinking, what I\u2019m writing. It is completely my schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n She\u2019s not alone in rejecting the traditional nine-to-five model in favor of a more intensive rhythm.<\/p>\n Nvidia\u2019s Huang has admitted he works every day of the week\u2014including holidays.<\/p>\n \u201cI work from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. I work seven days a week,\u201d Huang said in an interview with Stripe\u2019s CEO Patrick Collison in 2024.<\/p>\n Apple CEO Tim Cook is also known for starting his days well before dawn.<\/p>\n \u201cI can control the morning better than the evening and through the day. Things happen through the day that kind of blow you off course,\u201d Cook told the Australian Financial Review<\/em> in 2021. \u201cThe morning is yours. Or should I say, the early morning is yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #billion #tech #CEO #doesnt #jobs #years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although AI companies are soar… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[579,2005,6523,923,1979,542,529,624,4936,4914,300,8572,522,953,4937,1981,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The skills needed to land a tech job in 2026<\/h2>\n
Like Jensen Huang and Tim Cook, HubSpot\u2019s CEO embraces an intense work schedule<\/h2>\n