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Jeff’s Answer

There are too few… that's because the opportunity to change the world with software is practically unbounded. You see this in the number of businesses started that leverage software - app companies, Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, and more. In fact, every business today is becoming a software business (did you know McDonalds has acquired 3 software companies in the past year!). You see this in the hiring market and generally good salaries paid to software developers, even those just graduating college or bootcamp programs.

So I'd say we're currently nowhere near the saturation point of software developers! There are roughly 25 million professional software developers in the world today, and that number is expected to nearly double in the next 5 years… but that still won't satisfy the market need.

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Gill’s Answer

There is always a space in the industry for great talent. You will find that IT as a whole never have enough talended people. We have a wave of people heading for retirement that take certain skills with them that always need to be replaced - likewise, the pace that tech moves, we need to ensure that talent is hired to think out of the box and create new ways of disruptive thinking.
If we didnt - we would all still watch DVD's opposed to NetFlix. We would have to stand in line for a cab opposed to Uber...
Think whats next and how can you change/ improve/automate
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Polina’s Answer

Too few knowledgeable engineers, potentially too many graduates/less experienced engineers. Computer science/ computer engineering have been soaring in popularity as degrees for the past decade and a half, introducing a lot of new engineers into the industry. That has had a great impact on diversity of ideas, creativity and innovation in the industry. However, as more experienced engineers leave the industry, the need for experienced engineers as backfill is arising. In a lot of companies you will see "senior engineer" positions which stay open for weeks, even months, while the less intimidating "software engineer" positions will fill up often within a week or two. this produces an interesting dichotomy, where engineers with 4+ years of experience will often have their pick of positions, and the less experienced engineers will likely be competing in a rapidly growing pool of graduates. To stand out as an individual new to the industry, you might have to be more proactive about pursuing leads/reaching out.
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