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The renaissance era of software engineers is coming to an end. As we can see that Stripe, Lyft, and Snap don't give out 4y grant anymore. You can expect other

The renaissance era of software engineers is coming to an end. As we can see that Stripe, Lyft, and Snap don't give out 4y grant anymore. You can expect other companies to do the same. It is expected though; since you can't expect this awesome period to go on forever. In the last 10y, software engineer's earning in Bay Area has been pretty crazy. This attracts a lot of young people to enter the field; this means the supply is getting higher and higher.

mycall 5y ago
On the flip side, more and more companies in general need custom software for tons of reasons. There is way less available SEs than their demand. With all the new technologies coming out needing custom software to glue it all together, there isn't any end in sight to those with special and above average abilities.