[pcwalton]

If it's harder to find a job in the next five years as a senior engineer, it will likely be because the economy is in a recession or because of simple reversion to the mean, not because of too many entry-level engineers entering the workforce. If there was any time when entry-level engineers were flooding the market, it was during, like, 2013, when Google and Facebook were hiring like crazy.

The unemployment statistics don't match what you're saying here, at all.

[throwing838383]

are there unemployment statistics for software engineers? The overall unemployment statistics are probably way off from the subset of professionals and or software engineers.

[pcwalton]

No, they aren't. The unemployment rate for software engineers was 2.2 percent in 2013 [1].

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/stem-crisis-or-ste...