Interesting page, but this part is a bit hard to believe: There is no tech labor shortage. No study, other than those sponsored by the industry, has ever s

Interesting page, but this part is a bit hard to believe: There is no tech labor shortage. No study, other than those sponsored by the industry, has ever shown a shortage. Wages, both for new graduates and established professionals, have been flat or falling in the engineering and programming fields (adjusted for inflation). Employers hire only a tiny fraction of those who apply. HR departments routinely exclude CVs of applicants they deem "too expensive"--those that are over age 35. (So managers never see these CVs, and mistakenly believe there are no applicants.) The argument about ageism might well be true. However, I don't think it's going to be easy to find high quality software engineers, especially if you exclude the all the foreign students graduating from the top-25 or so CS programs in the country