Most of us on Blind get paid a lot due to scarcity. Given there’s so many coding camps and CS students, why is there so much demand? In other words, why can’t all that supply of students meet demands and drive salaries down? How shit is the average developer?
Because most people don't wanna spend all nighters in the engineering or computer science buildings (often named after Bill Gates).
Can confirm all-nighters, no social life in college due to coding work. Worth it
Writing code is really hard and especially graduating from a good school and keeping up with the workload in most jobs takes some determination. A lot of people see the high salaries and decide that they like money, so they take a bootcamp or sign up for CS at Uni. Then they actually try it and it's hard and they don't find it fun. Some of them squeak by and still can't cut it when it comes time for doing the work in a job. The people here are not indicative of the majority. They got hired at top companies. Most people never make it that far.
Cuz they dont know what lc is.
I wonder what percentage of the developer force enjoys programming. I do and most I know do as well. But I also know some who don’t. If you enjoy it I don’t see why you wouldn’t put in the time to become really good at it. There must be more that don’t enjoy it than those that do. Or they’re content at being average.
If you notice, there are actually not many people on blind
CS degrees requires math courses, and math is hard. Then the entry level cs courses makes it even harder. If you survive those then LC becomes enjoyable, and blind becomes your friend
Normal distribution.
Where are you seeing scarcity when engineers have to take 100s of interviews with useless leetcode hard to get a job?
Interviewing is kinda broken but you understood what I meant. It’s not easy to hire good people
Being a software engineer only started becoming cool and mainstream in like 2010-ish. Until then being a geek wasn't cool and definitely didn't guarantee the crazy TCs we get now (still high standard of living, but if you wanted to get rich, you'd go into finance, not tech). From then until now smartphones 10x'd, cloud computing exploded, and demand for software developers went through the roof. Supply, however, takes a lot longer to adjust, which is why we have what we have.
you've pretty much answered your own question.
Is the average engineer really that bad?
Yes.