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Ironically, knowing that I can get a good salary with relatively shit skills makes me want to up my game. Because it seems like a situation that is inherently u

Ironically, knowing that I can get a good salary with relatively shit skills makes me want to up my game. Because it seems like a situation that is inherently unstable. Eventually it has to change (imo), either through companies becoming more scrupulous in their hiring, or through a massive flood of new devs.

dropit_sphere 8y ago
I think it will be a massive flood of new devs (maybe we're in it now?) -> overvalued tech stocks -> crash -> stricter hiring. It's not that tech, even done by shitty devs, isn't valuable. It's a question of whether the market can control itself, which I'm pretty sure is no.
- arcturus17 8y ago
  > stricter hiring Stricter hiring on the low-end perhaps, because in FAANG and the companies that copy them, hiring could hardly get any stricter...
danielcampos93 8y ago
If you take a look at most schools CS is now one of the most popular majors. When I graduated ~3 years ago the class was ~100 per grade. I went back to recruit and class size was ~600 per grade. Talking to profs I know all over the country this seems to be thematic. The supply curve is about to shift.
xiaodai 8y ago
You will get a massive flood of wanna-be new devs. But economic theory would tell us that high salary attracts more talent and even the companies will have more people to choose from they also become more selective so the riff-raffs still won't get a job. So only the good ones will get the plum roles; of coruse a few bad one fall through the cracks, but overall devs are smart people.