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If it's harder to find a job in the next five years as a senior engineer, it will likely be because the economy is in a recession or because of simple reversion
by pcwalton 7y ago
If it's harder to find a job in the next five years as a senior engineer, it will likely be because the economy is in a recession or because of simple reversion to the mean, not because of too many entry-level engineers entering the workforce. If there was any time when entry-level engineers were flooding the market, it was during, like, 2013, when Google and Facebook were hiring like crazy.
The unemployment statistics don't match what you're saying here, at all.
- throwing838383 7y agoare there unemployment statistics for software engineers? The overall unemployment statistics are probably way off from the subset of professionals and or software engineers.
- pcwalton 7y agoNo, they aren't. The unemployment rate for software engineers was 2.2 percent in 2013 [1]. [1]: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/stem-crisis-or-stem-surplus-yes-and-yes.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/stem-crisis-or-ste...