That "shortage of engineers" is a complete fabricated story, designed and perpetuated by big tech companies, with 1 goal: keep costs from skyrocketing. If the

That "shortage of engineers" is a complete fabricated story, designed and perpetuated by big tech companies, with 1 goal: keep costs from skyrocketing. If there were truly a shortage you would be seeing a DRAMATIC rise in salaries, not the mediocre rise you're seeing over the last 5 years. The truth of the matter is there's an enormous influx of new developers stateside thanks to the media frenzy around developer shortages. The pinnacle of this hype even reached the White House, with Obama urging young people to enter the field. We have plenty of developers here, companies just don't want to pay them more. And if you can't find them here there is an even larger pool of developers available abroad. Companies have perpetuated this myth of "not enough developers" and the nation bought it hook line and sinker.