My dad's resume and skills from 1980

Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:18PM (#33338491)

There was also bad programmer job market crash in the 80s that changed the market up a lot by the 90s. In fact, this was about when the gender ratio became very skewed (men and women dropped out of programming at equal rates, but the recovery was lopsided).

Our computer science department chair (Ed Lazowska) at the time brought this up as a reason to be wary about department expansion in the mid 90s.

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Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by omginternets on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:26PM (#33339013)

What caused the crash?

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Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980 by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:57PM (#33339276)

I’m not really clear. A general recession at the end of the 70s along with an end in a booming rise of programmer jobs. If you look at https://www.geekwire.com/2014/analysis-examining-computer-sc...

You’ll see a huge drop off in computer science graduates after a local peak in 1985 (they wouldn’t get back to that level until 2000, note this article also quotes data from Ed Lazowska).

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