If there were not a shortage of API devs, salary for programmers wouldn’t have gone through the roof. You can’t just say because there are a couple million programmer there are definitely no shortage of them. The market demand just happened to be higher.
Re:EU beckons Indian tech talent
by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @09:03AM
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Since when is €42k salary considered as being through the roof?
That’s more of a chicken and egg problem. As you’ve said, if there were no foreign talent availability, prices would have been lot higher. Just look at the USA.
Whether you want to keep that is another thing in itself. From what I see, the availability for large amount of beginners (Not necessarily foreign, see bootcamp) does not affect the market value for experienced programmers at all.
You say you have a shortage for API devs?
Then either:
1) pay more at which point you'll be flooded with aplicants and if not then you have a real claim for skill shortage with the government and can secure visas for immigrant workers or
2)train them yourself, there's plenty of motivated people of all ages willing to learn something that's in demand. Simples.
But what's that?! Investing in the workforce is too expensive for the shareholders?! Boo-hoo, my heart bleeds for the poor companies and their offshore accounts.