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> a lot of the people who'd normally have gone to wall street, suddenly were interested in "tech" Is there more to it than that? I think you summed it up well
by vineyardmike 4y ago
> a lot of the people who'd normally have gone to wall street, suddenly were interested in "tech"
Is there more to it than that? I think you summed it up well. I'll add that other "fancy" professions have structural limitations that seem to cause a glut of money-seeking software engineers (beyond the hyped up non-tech founder). Once upon a time, if you were smart and technical you became a doctor, but med schools haven't expanded capacity and its a long tough process compared to an undergrad CS degree. Lawyers experienced a massive growth a generation ago, and they haven't retired yet, depressing salaries and causing lawyers to work longer. SDEs are still a great career though, considering its still growing in salary and accessibility.
- biohax2015 4y agoAnd what's wrong with that? Smart people follow the money.
- vineyardmike 4y agoNothing is wrong with it. Follow the money. I personally like making more of it. That said, some people enjoy technology for the sake of technology, and they likely lament the changing demographics of their colleagues. Personally, I noticed that at my highest paying job(at the time), most of my colleagues didn’t care about learning anything technological if it didn’t relate to their job growth. Eg. A real conversation i had: UDP vs TCP what’s tht? Networking stuff. Everything here is wrapped in an internal library, why do I need need to know those acronyms? PS: I suspect this is how companies brazenly violate GPL and other licenses. Not by manager mandate but engineers who don’t know anything about OSS and just git-clone a random GitHub repo.