"When will Lambda School flood the market with software engineers?"
This is one of those times when understanding scale is very difficult for humans.
There are currently over 1,500 open jobs for "software engineers" in Iowa alone.
No single school will move the needle.
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There are about 55,000 computer science graduates in the United States each year.
There are about 25,000 code bootcamp grads.
There are *single companies* whose engineering hiring requirements are growing by more than 80,000 software engineers/yr.
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Yes software engineers are in demand. But one company hiring 80,000 in a year? Citation very much needed on that one.
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My personal conversations with senior executives at said companies
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Google has 85,000 total employees. Only a portion of those are programmers, of course. You’re saying an American company is hiring more programmers this year than work at google in total?
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You should check in with that person at the end of the year and report back in this thread. I would be surprised if they hire 1/20th that number.
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Good numbers check there. Indian outsourcing companies hit such numbers though. TXs is 400k, Infosys is 200k, so it’s possible if you are global. The biggest software employers are not actually the marquee American platform companies.
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I suspect even in the US the biggest software employees are possibly not the most famous software companies.
Sure. My googling shows Tata Consultif Services in India is the software company with the most employees at 375k. Even for a company _that_ size hiring 80k in a year would be insane growth.
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