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> seriously undermine wages for software devs here Not really. Competent devs are not cheap anywhere. In order to noticeably lower wages in the US you need to
by dennisgorelik 11y ago
> seriously undermine wages for software devs here
Not really.
Competent devs are not cheap anywhere.
In order to noticeably lower wages in the US you need to bring a lot of software developers from other countries.
But the supply of software developers is quite limited.
Besides, as soon as wages start to move downwards, software development products start going down in cost (or go up in quality). That increases sales of software and increases demand for more software developers.
- lifesucks1 11y agoThis is not true I am a dev and have been doing development for 15 years till I was forced to change my career. Reason not one big IT shop or Consulting companies want to hire anyone with experience. They want to hire the cheapest H1b's to do coding. Since they accept such low salaries and everyone claims they are a coding expert. In reality it is bodies vs the rates. So if the clients are willing to pay 100 dollars per hour and it costs you 30 dollars per hour by hiring a H1b. You pocket the 70. Since these guys do such a bad job now you can milk the client for all the bug fixes etc for the crappy job. Since there is no easy proven way to evaluate quality other than the number of tickets closed it just does not matter. At no point am I referring to companies in silicon valley like Google, FB, AMZN etc. This is for the consulting industry in the rest of the country where this gets completely misused. I have seen most of my fellow programmers change their career since having 15 years of experience is bad thing because we are not willing to work for 60K.
- dennisgorelik 11y agoWhat did you (and your friends) change your career to? Is it to management of lower skilled developers?