[spamizbad]

People always say this and I have to ask: have you seen the job market in India lately? It's competitive. Salaries used to be 1/10th that of a US engineer. US-based companies pay a premium, with Google offering L5 engineers over 100K total comp.

[pyb]

Steve Yegge said that India had basically run out of software engineers.

[spamizbad]

Yep, and in the United States, there's no longer a large generation flooding into the workforce (Millennials); CS degrees have flatlined since 2016.

[spoils19]

Is there a source for this? I'd love to also find out if there's some inverse with bootcamp grads, albeit that would be harder to track.

[spamizbad]

https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20223/trends-in-undergraduate-...

Bootcamps are more challenging to evaluate, as they have a history controversy around their graduation rates / job placement rates. Anecdotally, I just don't see a ton of bootcamp graduates on the market relative to CS degree holders. However, stats seem to indicate there were ~25K graduates in 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/626932/north-america-cod...

But this can be somewhat misleading, as it includes all trainings - including existing software developers reskilling.