Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Scott Moore
Date : Wed Jun 29 2005 01:24 pm

Terry wrote:

> 2. Any unemployed engineer must be unemployed for a reason and is not worth
> hiring.
> (Wrong. Many excellent engineers were let go simply because their employers
> went out of business or drastically downsized. It's important to understand
> that there was a true software market bubble and it burst. This, together
> with dramatically increased outsourcing, has permanently changed the
> software industry landscape. Many large software companies are simply not
> hiring any US programmers as a policy.)

Programmers are unemployed because guys like me take the jobs available. Always
has been that way, always will be that way.

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