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Most of the comments seem to be focusing on the supply side. I agree the demand side is probably the greater factor.

by daxfohl 10y ago

vc4devil 10y ago
The focus is also similar to sports. There are very few 100 million dollar players, and there are very few high school kids that even become $1,000 players. While the story's about Google/Apple programmer's getting $150k are well and good, most hungry un-employed 40% unemployment under 25 world-wide kids these days, would be glad to get an indoor job for $10/hour. The sport analogy is excellent. Let's look at the hood, the ghetto kid tosses balls in the hoop from 6-14, with dreams of NBA, then one day he realizes the odd's are not in his favor, he see's his destiny at flipping burgers at micky-d, or hustling drugs, the drug dealers have the best women, best cars, ... and the micky guys are a joke, by 16 most ghetto kids know that nobody becomes an NBA, but it rather easy to go be a drug dealer, with micky-d always waiting. Our little nerd is much the same, he gets his computer, and maybe codes in high-school, but if he doesn't get accepted into Harvard at 14 years old like Bill Gates, then most likely by 16 he knows that he's never going be a Zuckerberg, he looks around see's everybody around him working in high-tech as fat, miserable, and bald. The only people having fun are doctors, and lawyers, and financial guys. People who like math, and physics, and make it to college, and along the way take to coding go on to be excellent teir-1 programmers. Most people that get into IT, just know enough to get an interview, and most of the time its 'who you know'. Even 50+ years ago in man-month-metholgoy of Brooks, it was noted that most developers ranged by an order of magnitude in ability. In all organizations it usually one guy that does the work of 100, and what do the other 99 do? Mostly meetings and bullshit, eventually the golden-boy bails and starts his own company.
- daxfohl 10y ago
  You created an account just to post this nonsense? Edit: Oh, it's pretty obvious you're the work4beer guy from below, must have gotten banned already. I'm guessing you're 17 and just got some rejection letters back. Or you're expecting acceptance letters. Either way the world doesn't work at all like you're imagining.
GBond 10y ago
Yes, I agree. The web-scale software segment is at a unique point in time where it is still in an "arms race" mode of growth for the best employees between its competitors AND making tremendous profits.

Most of the comments seem to be focusing on the supply side. I agree the demand side is probably the greater factor.

by daxfohl 10y ago

Most of the comments seem to be focusing on the supply side. I agree the demand side is probably the greater factor.

The focus is also similar to sports. There are very few 100 million dollar players, and there are very few high school kids that even become $1,000 players. While the story's about Google/Apple programmer's getting $150k are well and good, most hungry un-employed 40% unemployment under 25 world-wide kids these days, would be glad to get an indoor job for $10/hour. The sport analogy is excellent. Let's look at the hood, the ghetto kid tosses balls in the hoop from 6-14, with dreams of NBA, then one day he realizes the odd's are not in his favor, he see's his destiny at flipping burgers at micky-d, or hustling drugs, the drug dealers have the best women, best cars, ... and the micky guys are a joke, by 16 most ghetto kids know that nobody becomes an NBA, but it rather easy to go be a drug dealer, with micky-d always waiting. Our little nerd is much the same, he gets his computer, and maybe codes in high-school, but if he doesn't get accepted into Harvard at 14 years old like Bill Gates, then most likely by 16 he knows that he's never going be a Zuckerberg, he looks around see's everybody around him working in high-tech as fat, miserable, and bald. The only people having fun are doctors, and lawyers, and financial guys. People who like math, and physics, and make it to college, and along the way take to coding go on to be excellent teir-1 programmers. Most people that get into IT, just know enough to get an interview, and most of the time its 'who you know'. Even 50+ years ago in man-month-metholgoy of Brooks, it was noted that most developers ranged by an order of magnitude in ability. In all organizations it usually one guy that does the work of 100, and what do the other 99 do? Mostly meetings and bullshit, eventually the golden-boy bails and starts his own company.

daxfohl 10y ago
You created an account just to post this nonsense? Edit: Oh, it's pretty obvious you're the work4beer guy from below, must have gotten banned already. I'm guessing you're 17 and just got some rejection letters back. Or you're expecting acceptance letters. Either way the world doesn't work at all like you're imagining.

GBond 10y ago

Yes, I agree. The web-scale software segment is at a unique point in time where it is still in an "arms race" mode of growth for the best employees between its competitors AND making tremendous profits.