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No, this is just capitalism at work, and it's normal. Demand exceeds supply for software engineers, because humans need more software than ever before. Unemploy
by geoffschmidt 15y ago
No, this is just capitalism at work, and it's normal. Demand exceeds supply for software engineers, because humans need more software than ever before. Unemployment is high. Unemployed workers in other industries want to retrain as software engineers. This is exactly what's "supposed" to happen when workers are displaced from one industry.
You seem to be trying to imply that companies are hiring unqualified workers. I don't see any evidence of that -- do you?
- cageface 15y agoDemand only exceeds supply because too many people think they're going to make a quick buck with their new social recipe sharing startup. I strongly suspect the supply of those kinds of services currently far outstrips real demand.
- geoffschmidt 15y agoThe demand from what you dismissively call "social recipe sharing startups" is an insignificant fraction of the demand for software engineers. Techcrunch is not a good proxy for the job market. How many people do you think are actually getting paid to write social recipe sharing software? Maybe 1000? There are ~1.5 million software engineers in the US alone. Even if you think that there are 10000, that's still less that 1% of all positions. http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm