Software engineering has almost zero transferable skills and as developers in high wage countries are about to find out, very easy to move to cheaper markets.
I wouldn’t be worried if I was in Poland as a web software engineer. I would be very worried if I was doing that in the United States right now.
We’ve seen many times already how fast software jobs dry up in high wage countries when the economy changes.
This is simply ludicrous. I was around in software during the .com bust in 2000, and again during the financial crisis in 2008-9. At both times there were plenty of chicken littles saying all software dev would be outsourced to India and China. Both times software dev positions came roaring back with even higher salaries than before.
I wouldn’t be worried if I was in Poland as a web software engineer. I would be very worried if I was doing that in the United States right now.
We’ve seen many times already how fast software jobs dry up in high wage countries when the economy changes.