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Are software engineers just oversaturated right now (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by _izual@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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I’ve been a SWE for more than 8 years now. It was so easy getting jobs 2-3 years ago. Now it’s like a never-ending battle if you’re trying to land a job in this market right now. Especially with AI on the rise, many companies and businesses are skeptical to hire software engineer who are not unicorns (many years in FAANG companies).

I’ve worked in corporate, startup environments, and i’ve failed now twice trying to make my own business.

In theory, if I was a unicorn in my craft (SWE) I should be able to create an application that gets alot of traffic and revenue. My point is, maybe it’s not the app/idea/software itself. It’s just who you know and how you can sell.

So SWE’s are pointless now pretty much? Go use wordpress with an experienced business guy and you already closer to being successful than a unicorn SWE.

Thoughts?

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[–] inphinitfx@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

This is probably gonna come across as offensive, but particularly based on the implied equivolence to using wordpress, I'd suggest you may somehow have spent 8 years not really being a software engineer.

Good, experienced SWEs are still, imo, in demand. It's the juniors who are likely having trouble atm, as fewer orgs are willing or able to train them on the job in the current environment.

But we're past the 'omg hire anyone who can type!' phase where orgs were massively overhiring regardless of actual ability.

But being an entrepreneur requires more than just being a good SWE - in fact, it doesn't even need that. It's about execution, promotion, amd delivery of value to users imo. If thats being a great marketer who hires others to build, cool. If that's building something neat and finding a way to get it in front or your target audience, neat.