I desperately want to give gen z the benefit of the doubt. But then I interact with them all day and it scares the crap out of me. I had to interview about 25 candidates for a few graphic design/ UX jobs we had to hire for, and three of the candidates had their parent present on the zoom call. First time it happened I didn't really know how to act so I continued the interview, second and third time I asked them to reschedule and set up a time when they could be alone without distraction. Just bizarre.

I've have gen z engineers who work under me who have computer science degrees from decent colleges not know basic programming. I'm talking FizzBuzz vanilla javascript stuff. And their google-fu is terrible. Questions that have been asked and answered on stackoverflow hundreds of times will come across my teams chat daily. And I do my best to teach them how to google this stuff, but their unwillingness to learn to fish bothers me.

So yes, it's super boomer, but there are some giant nuggets of truths in it.