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Its just supply and demand, like anything else.
by rhelz 3y ago
Its just supply and demand, like anything else.
- kenjackson 3y agoAnd ability differences. For example there is a ton of supply for basketball players. But the product is magnitudes better with Lebron James than it is with me on the court. Is the best garbage person in the world that much more productive than your average person (not even versus another garbage person, but someone you randomly pick and train them for a couple of weeks)? Based on my years interviewing there are huge levels between the best SW engineers and even those with CS degrees, much less randomly selected people.
- no_wizard 3y agoSo much of being good at software engineering is non technical though, in ways I sometimes don’t feel things like how interviews are conducted don’t do a good job of screening for.
- breck 3y agoAre you sure there's no artificial government intervention?
- rhelz 3y agoThere's much less government intervention in hiring programmers, than there is, in hiring teachers (you need a state certificate) or CPAs (same). Even if you want to be a hairdresser you need a state certificate.
- breck 3y agoYes there is no government intervention in who can be a programmer, but that's not what the issue might be. Might it be the stuff that programmers work with, the inputs and outputs of the craft, that are covered by laws that create an unnatural economic disequilibrium?
- AlexeyBelov 3y agoAre you being coy? Is there or isn't there in your opinion?
- breck 3y agoThere certainly is intervention. I'm undecided about whether that intervention is the primary contributor to the high pay.