Could a computer coding job paying just $15 per hour signal something’s wrong with the tech world?
A generation of IT workers have come into the marketplace assuming that they’re due exorbitant salaries. So if the salaries fall, their world ends, and so must ours, they project:
Even so, the ad’s wage does make one wonder if guest worker visas and the rise of offshoring are undermining U.S. tech careers–and by extension threatening the country’s tech leadership.
Ho hum. You know what killed US automotive manufacturing leadership? Giant corporations and unionized employees who made the enterprise cost ineffective. If United States born developers price themselves out of the market, whose fault is that?
Oh, yeah: the government or the Other.
You get what you pay for. It’s not as though EVERY coding job is going to go that direction.
hln