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As a regular dev on the east coast, working for a company with large corporate clients in conservative industries, the crash had basically no impact at all. Pe

As a regular dev on the east coast, working for a company with large corporate clients in conservative industries, the crash had basically no impact at all. People looking for new jobs might have had a little more trouble. And the dotcom boom brought a lot of devs with minimal skills, just because it was impossible to find good devs; some of those who hadn't leveled up in time for the crash got shaken out. But anyone who really could write code did fine, in my town.

lm28469 7y ago
> working for a company with large corporate clients in conservative industries, the crash had basically no impact at all. Exactly, if there is a new crash it'll affect BS startups. aka: if your company is working on a BS service, isn't profitable after X years and is only able to survive due to investors initial $$$ you're in a bad place, including companies with a proper product but an oversized engineering team. If you're working on a real/profitable product in a healthy company/market you'won't feel a thing. uber, snapchat, wework &c.