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People who made fun of me in high school for being interested in programming are now trying to get programming jobs. People I know who flunked out of college or
by nilkn 12y ago
People who made fun of me in high school for being interested in programming are now trying to get programming jobs. People I know who flunked out of college or were expelled for cheating are now programmers. I'm now the only programmer at my company with a math or CS degree. (The others have degrees, but in biology, history, etc. -- they were all career switchers.)
That's how pervasive it's becoming. If there's any sort of contraction in the industry, the situation will be bad.
- checker659 12y agoWhat do you work on?
- nilkn 12y agoI'm at a bootstrapped company that was profitable since inception, so we're relatively safe in the event of a collapse in VC funding. My concern is that, as far as I can tell, almost all bootcamp-trained coders are going to VC-funded startups, many of which are fairly early stage. Those jobs could all disappear overnight, so to speak, if a bunch of VCs decided they wanted to invest their money in something other than technology.