[rcarmo]

There is always an element of "let's see how low we can get" in mainstream IT, since people outside tech view tech as a cost center and not a profit center, which devalues candidates.

[red-iron-pine]

There is IT and there is Dev, and much of the latter drives profits.

Most of IT is there to support business ops, and is basically there to do what a secretary pool did 60 years ago.