As stated by others, the market for good engineers is thin. There's another driving force worth noting: we are steadily automating and abstracting ourselves awa

As stated by others, the market for good engineers is thin. There's another driving force worth noting: we are steadily automating and abstracting ourselves away. Depending on how you look at it, it's either the best (you know how to put it all together and do work that would have taken 30 engineers just 5 years ago) or worst (you suck) time to be in software engineering.