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You do not compete with tech workers, you compete with developers. More specifically, you compete with developers at your level of exp. More specifically, you

• vineyardmike 4y ago
  To build on this with concrete numbers, warn tracker used public data to break out the number of affected employees by more specific data. You can see that from Google there are 300 entry level SWEs, 500 mid level, and 200 senior level. The whole industry had 12,000 Google employees, but you’re only competing with a few hundred SWEs of your experience level (using payroll level as a proxy for experience). You can imagine this is repeated for various companies, and could still be thousands of new job seekers, but it does limit the perception of a “flood” of engineers. https://www.warntracker.com/?tab=charts https://www.warntracker.com/?tab=charts