Comments by "iorekby" (@iorekby) on "The REAL Reason Tech Hiring Has Slowed Down (Surprising)" video.

Offshore dev is another red herring. The wave that started in 00s wasn't so much driven by cost saving. That was a secondary bonus. Outsourcing began and continues to be driven by dev ceilings being hit in many countries. There's only ever a certain amount of qualified devs in any given population at any given time. Once you reach that ceiling, you have to look elsewhere. That's been the salient driver for dev outsourcing in US for decades.
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And like in 2000 and 2008 the competitive market space is squeezing out the "self taught" mostly front end folks. I really hope people learn lessons this time around: You can get a job for a few years and make some nice mkney when market is hiring mediocre relatively uneducated devs en masse, but it's not a sustainable career for most people.
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@zoeherriot There's are lot of "devs" working for small ma and pa companies that basically write VB scripts and Excel macros lol. These people don't work in modern software engineering teams, which you likely do. I'd take their "dev experiences" with a warehouse full of salt.
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