If the market has 10 openings and 9 engineers the companies should fight over the 9 by increasing overall compensation, soon another intelligent hard working individual will be sufficiently incentivised to join the industry workforce.
No amount of demand can create people with two years of experience in less than two years, or people with four-year degrees in less than four years.
As someone who has been coding since my teenage years; I just don't buy that this trait is absolutely essential to being a successful engineer. If it is why doesn't the market reflect this?
Oh.. nothing.
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