Re:Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering
by stale2002 on Sunday September 29, 2019 @11:24AM
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> salaries are bound to collapse to reflect that at some point.
I don't don't, I've been hearing people make this claim for a decade now. Hasn't happened yet.
Quite the opposite, people keep saying this, yet salaries continue to skyrocket.
Maybe basic programming skills are just really valuable, and when people learn them, they become able to do much more productive work?
Re:Online courses vs. colleges for software engineering
by throwawayjava on Sunday September 29, 2019 @06:01PM
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I don't know about that. I think salaries for web developers without some differentiating skill set have collapsed, or were never really that high to begin with. The average salary coming out of my undergrad's CS dept is about $60K.
Programming salaries are now very bimodal.
I'd say that covers the majority of programming jobs. The problem, though, is that the are a vast number of people who can meet that bar and salaries are bound to collapse to reflect that at some point. What happens to them then?