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Why "start" to decrease? IMHO, the whole process has been going on for quite some time. For freelancer's, there's the ever increasing competition from Asia/Ind
by th0br0 12y ago
Why "start" to decrease?
IMHO, the whole process has been going on for quite some time. For freelancer's, there's the ever increasing competition from Asia/India/low living costs region which leads to less profit (arguably, most code coming from those regions is bad but even that will increase eventually).
As for "proper" jobs ... well... given that you see more and more articles about people finishing up college without being able to code at all, the salary gap is probably only going to increasFor desk jobs / 8-to-5 jobs in mainland US... e. There'll probably be those coders that learn how to code pre-college and are then able to translate their experience post-college, whereas there'll always be those who are good at social things & buzzwords. Distinguishing yourself from the mass early on will probably make a big change regarding your target salary.
In the end, I'm constantly reminded of my IT teacher's saying from high school (loosely translated from German): becoming a programmer just requires training. becoming a computer scientist / engineer, however, requires far more/university. (please keep in mind that CS in Germany is far more theoretically oriented than CS in the US)
- jimmaswell 12y agoA lot of people cannot be trained to program at all
- karmicthreat 12y agoI think in this day and age to actually be a good software engineer you need to keep advancing and learning new skills. If you sit back with what you learned in uni and don't actively seek out more knowledge you will fall behind into the category of just a programmer.
- xiaoma 12y agoCredentialist elitism seems to have a stronger hold in Germany than in the US. To be sure, it exists everywhere to some degree or another, but the US also respects those who perform even if they don't have the paper (e.g. Steve Wozniak, John Carmack, etc).