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There is no worker shortage for engineers in software roles. Nor a shortage in other engineering professions. That's corpo propaganda used to reduce salaries, t

There is no worker shortage for engineers in software roles. Nor a shortage in other engineering professions. That's corpo propaganda used to reduce salaries, the largest expense of tech. More job competition = less pay. If anyone wants the best software devs there's plenty of them uploading projects on GitHub. The resume is right there in plain sight. Speaking to numerous hiring managers personally, the story is the same. They know, they also have a few hundred applications already. You'll know there's a shortage when the org actually puts money into education, interns, and makes offers to juniors. Further - if there were a shortage, that would be an existential crisis to any engineering org. They would be tumbling over themselves trying to get people through school. They have actual billions lying around. This is not the case. These corps contribute almost nothing, because they don't need to.

drvdevd 4y ago
I certainly can’t argue with this point. Except I will add that when I speak of a shortage of engineers, I am perhaps more speaking of a gut feeling on the overall quality of software the entire industry is putting out. There may or may not be a surplus of engineers out there to fill jobs, but there are a lot of hats an engineer has to wear if they actually want to drive systemic positive forward change, much of which is of course not really “engineering” at all. Maybe what I’m trying to say is: for the vast majority of new-hires despite qualifications, they will consistently produce more technical debt and that debt will need to be paid from time to time. I believe the increase in popularity of LLM-type AIs will amplify this effect and make that debt more visible and urgent.