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How times have changed, in 2006 when I enrolled into Undergrad CS everyone was saying all coding jobs would be offshored to Bangalore. All the cool kids went to
by filereaper 4y ago
How times have changed, in 2006 when I enrolled into Undergrad CS everyone was saying all coding jobs would be offshored to Bangalore. All the cool kids went to Finance or Quant.
- vhold 4y agoIt's really nuts, computer programming has this gigantic language translation component to it, so asking somebody to translate from English, to another human language, then to a computer language, is fraught full of peril and basically fails most of the time. The only teams that can pull it off have people who are really talented in the company's native language, and computer programming, and communicating with non-native language people. Those people are super rare and are not paid nearly enough to encourage more people to seek out that niche.
- rafram 4y agoYeah, but then 2008 happened, finance got sketchy, FAANG CS jobs started to pay more than quant, and all the salary-minded undergrads realized they wanted absolutely nothing more than to write software for a living.