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Because it's not 1k qualified people applying to the job. Also, retaining engineers for more than one or two years is a problem our industry has.

Software Engineering jobs get applications from people all over the place. Our industry is "open" compared to similarly paid professions.

You wouldn't apply to a finance job without a relevant degree or experience, you need to go med school or pharmacy school for medical fields, you need to go to law school or at least pass the bar exam for law jobs.

Meanwhile I work with devs who studied Comp Sci, random liberal arts, other types of engineering, and some who dropped out of college entirely.

I think it's a net good that we don't gate keep the profession but a downside is that everyone applies to every job. For example, bootcamp grads are told to blindly apply to jobs. So are college seniors.