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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by _vdpp on Monday July 18, 2022 @10:47PM (#32146963)
I’ve been wondering if SWE pay rates have been artificially high for a while due to easy lending - it will be interesting to see if your prediction comes true. Probably a lot of SW companies out there right now are dependent on discretionary income which puts them at risk in a tough market.
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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by beezlebroxxxxxx on Monday July 18, 2022 @11:27PM (#32147204)
SWE salaries are also very high because right now it's cheap as hell to run a software company leading to huge returns. Overheads are miniscule. The salaries can take a larger slice of the pie.

A lot of people in the comments are talking about how EE work is comparatively much harder. But that's irrelevant. SWEs simply make businesses more money.

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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by SoftTalker on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:05AM (#32147415)
But a large number of software businesses are not making any money at all.
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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by Apocryphon on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:11AM (#32147446)
Which goes back to this subthread’s root post about investors focusing on companies “promising massive returns in the future.”
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