[HN Gopher] Charted: The Decline of U.S. Software Developer Jobs
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       Charted: The Decline of U.S. Software Developer Jobs
        
       Author : barbacoa
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2025-03-14 22:11 UTC (49 minutes ago)
        
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       | dm03514 wrote:
       | Interesting would love to learn more about their methodology.
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       | Like are they straight searching "software developer" on indeed?
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       | https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE
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       | It's rough out there, I see former coworkers laid off last year
       | and the year before still struggling to find work
        
       | SomeHacker44 wrote:
       | Decline of job LISTINGS. This seems to have nothing to do with
       | jobs whatsoever.
        
       | michpoch wrote:
       | Why would you start the graph from 2020? The only thing it shows
       | is that Covid was such a strange time.
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       | Stretch the graph to 1995 and then we can talk.
        
       | butterlettuce wrote:
       | Lots of college students will regret their CS degrees. And it's a
       | shame because it's not an easy degree to get like, say,
       | communications. Imagine all that hard work just to work at
       | McDonalds.
        
       | rightbyte wrote:
       | How about using absolute numbers instead of confusing
       | percentages?
        
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