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>But I also think it's totally wrong to say we don't have a technology labor shortage. The best evidence of this are the salary numbers for people with math and
by chroem- 10y ago
>But I also think it's totally wrong to say we don't have a technology labor shortage. The best evidence of this are the salary numbers for people with math and science degrees. It's not because physics and math suddenly got more valuable. It's because tech is so starved for labor it's hiring people from different disciplines to do the job and it's actually brought the average salaries in line with CS and engineering graduates.
This series of claims is so different from the reality that myself and many others have observed that I don't even know where to begin. Physics graduates are literally jumping off of buildings because of how poor their employment prospects are. Can you provide any sources for the statements you just made?
- ansy 10y agohttp://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pay-you-back/bachelors http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pa... #11 Physics & Mathematics $56,200 starting, $111,000 mid-career Compare that to Computer Science # 5 Computer Science (CS) & Engineering, starting $71,200, mid-career $116,000 Also, I work with and have interviewed many people with physics and math degrees. Granted, there's some sampling bias going on there. But the ones I know didn't really have prospects actually using their degrees in their respective fields unless they got a phd and went into academia. So they all went into tech one way or another.
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