Supply and Demand Are Broken in Programming Education

https://blog.boot.dev/jobs/supply-demand-broken-programming-education/

by theobeers • 8 months ago

6 1 8 months ago

blog.boot.dev

theobeers• 8 months ago

Submission statement:

This was posted on Monday by the author and didn't manage to cut through the noise on a busy day. Thought I would give it one more chance.

It's a post by the founder/CEO of an edtech company offering courses on software development (where I also work), on the problem of connecting the dots between the software careers that people are looking to get into and the job openings that actually exist in the current market.

A few points that I found noteworthy:

- AI/ML has obviously been the growth field of the decade, but job-seekers' interest in getting into it seems to swamp the available roles.

- The point about fullstack devs getting low-ish compensation was new to me: it's probably because they tend to be jacks-of-all-trades at smaller companies that just pay less.

- Backend dev (the original focus of this company) still pencils out nicely, given what seems to be low interest from job-seekers relative to available roles, which also often pay well.

- It's unclear how or when the tech job market is supposed to correct. We can all feel that it's a broken market, on a fundamental level and to a severe degree; but diagnosing the specific problems is difficult, let alone suggesting fixes.

Direct link to the GitHub repo with the data that was gathered and analyzed for the post: https://github.com/bootdotdev/jobdata-november-2025

Supply and Demand Are Broken in Programming Education

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