Comment by tayo42
Have you looked for a software job in the last few years?
It's worse then 10 years ago. Idk why everyone who comments on the job market only looks back to the covid year
Have you looked for a software job in the last few years?
It's worse then 10 years ago. Idk why everyone who comments on the job market only looks back to the covid year
No, and no individual person can rely on their personal experience to gauge the job market, including you. However if you wish to assert that it is currently more difficult to get a job as a software developer than it was in late 2015, aggregate data suggest this is false. Also, looking back a mere 10 years does not dispel the general impression that you lack context.
If you look at employment in, for example, NAICS 518 "Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services" which is one of the larger BLS categories for our industry, the numbers are at all-time highs, having doubled since 2011. An example of a bad job market for software developers was 2001-2011, when this sector shrank by a third.