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There is no shortage of IT workers, there's however shortage of "IT talent" Most IT workers I have met are mediocre at best. Companies want rock stars. That's the problem. Worse of all, they are use to paying average salary for average programmers and don't reward rock stars appropriately.

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I had an interview recently. In this interview, I was told that 9/10 of people interviewing for the position for which I was interviewing couldn't write a simple loop to reverse a string. I'd like to attribute that to performance anxiety, but I had office hours for Computer Science students. I know that isn't what it is.

Note that this was for a position asking for between 1 and 3 years of experience.

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