Is there a tech talent shortage going on?

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In my opinion, this will get much worse over the next few years. Today's school leavers come to us without any prior technical knowledge and with outrageous salary expectations.

It is always suggested to them that "If you have a problem, just watch a tutorial video on Youtube and solve your problem with it".

The problem here is the lack of neural networking in the brain to solve complex problems on their own and strategically go about finding a solution. The youth is not stupid, they just do not learn to solve problems effectively and sustainably.

This is reflected in the quality of the applicants. We have more and more work, the quality is dwindling.

So HR has to hire such "mediocre goods" and we have a spiral that pulls us deeper and deeper down.

This is - in my opinion - a worldwide problem. Solvable only by a lot of commitment from private organizations and people who deals with the youth and promotes here again know.

The school system will not be able to do this.

No tech talent shortage in Australia. I’ve been job hunting for the past two years and it’s jobs offering 30-40% less than my current salary or fail to get me excited about the product/tech means I’m still looking daily. I have a few friends in a similar situation. Career wise, moving to Australia has been career suicide.

Australia has a tech job shortage. Australia is a tech dinosaur a good 10 years behind the UK.

It’s either low payed startups, with no funding, no equity for the risk+low pay, not that strong a product or it’s large corporate big data jobs (ETL) with all the issues of large old corporate companies where IT is a cost center and layers of management and staff churn.

Since Australia has closed the borders they haven’t been able to import developers. Likewise salaries have remained stagnant. People in good jobs are staying in good jobs with no temptation to move for better pay or more exciting projects.

I don't think so. Companies like to say this, but I don't see it reflected in the salaries. I think part of it is the unrealistic expectations you can see in their job postings.

If there's an actual shortage, it's their own fault. Everyone wants to hire senior developers and nobody wants to train junior people to become seniors.

Where exactly is the so called tech talent shortage? I would certainly like to immigrate there. (Australia is out of bounds now, but which parts of Asia are you referring to?) Also all "tech" is not equal. Are you specifically referring to back-end web development?

There’s no shortage. It became a buyers market during Covid (employers had the pick of the litter). It seems to be tilting back towards the middle. I don’t know anyone that’s not trying to get into tech.

It’s hyper competitive out there for anyone in the middle of the normal distribution.

People were complaining about the supposed shortage of developers for many years now. However the very same people who complain are building multi-stage obstacle courses that one candidate out of hundred is supposed to clear.

Does demand sometimes exceed supply at current prices? It seems like it. Sometimes prices go up and more of an equilibrium is achieved, sometimes buyers complain they can't find adequate quality at current prices. The world keeps spinning.

Is that a shortage? Kind of. It is in some sense, it is not in others.

> Recruiters are getting pretty damn aggressive these last two months

I've noticed this as well. The trend of sending 5x followup emails when I don't respond drives me up the wall. I get something like 10 recruiters reaching out to me a week, and most of them do not deserve a response.

I think for a long time now, there have been more people with money and ideas than engineers who can build them. I don't think this status has changed much in the last few years.