Re:Skilled tech workers snapped up despite downturn
by ptero on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:41PM
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Just a personal recollection, but the couple of years before the collapse were absolutely crazy, hiring wise.
In addition to the dotcom boom there was a ton of "Y2K bug" hiring in late 1990s. Many people who never did any programming went to a 4 week course on COBOL and were hired as programmers to fix the Y2K bug. There were, indeed, real job losses at the end of the dotcom boom, but many people who left for other fields would not, in normal circumstances, have been in the software at all. My 2c.
In addition to the dotcom boom there was a ton of "Y2K bug" hiring in late 1990s. Many people who never did any programming went to a 4 week course on COBOL and were hired as programmers to fix the Y2K bug. There were, indeed, real job losses at the end of the dotcom boom, but many people who left for other fields would not, in normal circumstances, have been in the software at all. My 2c.