[magic_man]

There are many unemployed engineers in India and china. If everyone did software engineering there would be a lot unemployed software engineers.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-06-18/news...

There is a lot of luck involved in life. Maybe this guy dies on the boat like a lot of other people. I think silicon valley has a very skewed view of the world.

[yummyfajitas]

The unemployed engineers in India are the bad ones - they got into engineering because it's an easy ticket to a flat/car/wife even if you have no real interest in the field. A few are stuck in a bad location due to family obligations. This is actually a common pattern in tech hiring; you see similar patterns in parts of academia (e.g. math).

If hiring good people was easy then Bangalore wouldn't be paying more than Europe \ London (in nominal rupees, i.e. not adjusted for cost of living.)

Having spent quite a bit of time hiring in India, good luck finding a competent unemployed engineer. (If you can find one, I'll make them employed very quickly.)

[Buge]

I think the point is we should not be encouraging liberal art majors to do software engineering, because the liberal art majors will be bad at software engineering and thus unemployed.