| 1. The field got oversaturated. Everyone signed up for coding classes, not everyone has graduated from coding classes. 2. Lack of information transparency: everyone involved has huge incentives to lie, so it's extremely difficult for a company to say "we are a good company wanting to hire a good dev" and someone to respond "I am a good dev looking for a good job". Same problem as dating. 3. Moving jobs to cheaper countries: the flipside of work-from-home is having companies realize that they don't need to have butts in chairs is San Francisco, they can have butts in chairs in India, 75% of performance for half the price. This is probably going to be the new normal until: 1. The IT education scales down and juniors give up, so that there's less competition. 2. Someone comes up with a interviewing process that is significantly more difficult to game. 3. The society at large switches back from "just essentials only" to "one bag of glitter poop please" so that lots of silly businesses can stay afloat, at least for some time. |
They had to be brain-dead to only consider that as an option now. What was keeping them from figuring it out sometime post-Reagan?