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German dev here. Here, you hear companies complain about qualified laborer scarcity("Fachkräftemangel") and the politicians eat it up. It's not true though; it'
by LinXitoW 14y ago
German dev here. Here, you hear companies complain about qualified laborer scarcity("Fachkräftemangel") and the politicians eat it up. It's not true though; it's just that the companies have totally wrong ideas of what they can demand/offer. There are a lot of unpaid internships, entry-level pay with senior-level experience jobs and a lot of the companies file much more job offers than they actually need, just so they can get more applications.
According to simple market rules, less supply with more demand should increase the price/salary, but it doesn't.
- gaius 14y agoQuite; allowing for inflation, developer salaries have been flat since 2001. There is not a shortage of developers, and that is provable.
- weavejester 14y agoProvable how? Not raising developer salaries might be indicative of there being no shortage of developers, but it's not proof by any stretch of the imagination. In markets of asynchronous information, supply and demand fails. It's quite possible for developer salaries to remain constant or even decrease at the same time as demand for good developers goes through the roof.
- _pferreir_ 14y agoThey're just telling your politicians that so that they put more money in training qualified workers and increase the supply. Then, qualified workers will be worth nothing. Genius, hm?
- moocow01 14y agoMaybe they picked up on that technique from the US - our politicians eat it up as well :(