Lack of specialists - is it true or a myth?

Question

Career in IT

Many here tell (on a toaster, habré) and I often hear that it is extremely difficult to find specialists in web development, or for mobile devices.
But let's take a look at freelancing - not even an hour passes, when about 90 views and 15-20 responses appear - these are orders for layout, to raise an online store and the like. Let's take a look at brainstorage - employers clearly don't have a shortage of getting resumes, because many make minor conditions mandatory. They say you know 98% of what we have written - go to the forest, we need an ideal who knows 100%. If there was a shortage, they would take on anyone.
So that's the real question,
Explain the situation with personnel and their search in general. And it's not clear what's wrong with the shortage - some say - that the shortage of web / mobile developers is very large, but the numbers and observations say otherwise.

Answer 1

The deficit is terrible, all good specialists have been employed for a long time and do not change jobs very often. The quality of free people on the market is horrendous, we have to take two hands, two eyes, we have to eat almost according to the criterion.
That is, you can’t take a specialist for the average salary most often.

Answer 2

And you look at the questions people are asking here, look at the problems people are trying to solve. 30% of the questions are about the same thing: how to start doing something. The other 60% of questions can be answered by yourself. 10% of the questions are really worth something. But all these questions are just asked by such "specialists".
People do not want to think independently, solve problems independently. Not even to solve, but simply to find the answer on the Internet, since 99% of the problems have already been solved by someone else. People don't want to just get a little tense. To work somewhere as a programmer, you do not need a lot of intelligence: it is enough to be able to search for information on the Internet. But not everyone is capable of this. People don't know how to work. This is why there are so many responses on freelance exchanges, why customers are constantly getting burned by such responses, and why they cling to one good developer with all their might.
Any person who does something, who independently solves problems, in any company will be torn off with his hands and filled with money. There are many people, but only a few able to work.

Answer 3

I will be cruel ...
Strange as it may seem, both of them ...
Do you think we have few "pros" who are "capable of solving problems on their own"?
I assure them enough, as well as mediocrity and beginners who do not understand anything and do not know how.
BUT! These people have already organized their business or are on the way to it.
And employers want, as always, "pros" for "fix". What would it be like to say "take more - throw further" for a fix.
Now you understand where the deficit comes from? Yes, yes ... That's right, employers are looking for "pros" who do not know how to manage ... Who, for each given task, will say "I will be glad to carry out this project for you" ...
Funny, right?
And all this nonsense that happens at interviews is just psy-sadism to lower a person and he would agree to work hard for a smaller fix.
Do you think the "pros" do not understand this? How they understand. Hence the deficit. Lack of "professionals".
Now about employers... Why are enterprises created at all? To solve large and complex problems with the help of small resources. If the management is not able to organize the work and carry out a certain project with the help of entry-level specialists dividing a complex task into simple ones, then this is bad management and it will look for "professional suckers".

Answer 4

There are a lot of specialists, up to the middle class. As for the seniors and above, I can not say. I consider myself something between a junior and a middle, and the competition is fierce. Moreover, I often come across code of such a level that my eyes pop out of my head and the question arises - how could they pay for it?
IMHO, but those who talk about a shortage are either looking in the wrong place, or they cannot interest a person of the level they need, or they set absurd / too harsh selection conditions.

Answer 5

There is no shortage and never was, it's a myth about a friend of an acquaintance who gets 150 bucks an hour, whom no one has seen, but everyone wants to become. There are employers who have been looking for developers for X / 10 of its market price for years and whine that you see a shortage, this is in all areas, it’s just that most IT people don’t look beyond their profession and don’t communicate with people and draw wrong conclusions.

Answer 6

I don’t believe in a shortage - the entry threshold is very low. You can really come from the street, study the necessary minimum in a couple of months and already try to get a job somewhere

Answer 7

The shortage of specialists is true, but their surplus is a myth. I'll try to argue with numbers. For example , here are the
hourly rates in Ukraine
: price category "up to $ 20" (here I am for example) want to category "$ 21-30". So for any vacancy, whether it be $3/hour or $33/hour, there will be a huge competition, but this does not mean an excess of specialists. But the spread of these values ​​just means that there are few cool specialists.
Of course, there are other countries besides Ukraine, but the distribution of these rates is about the same, with the exception of national peculiarities. On average (by eye) 40% of programmers work at the lowest rates, and 1% of programmers work at the highest. The smallest spread of values ​​in Norway is 26% and 10% respectively, but most likely this is the influence of their socialism, I don’t presume to judge.
Given the average hourly rate for all professions in Europe (not the poorest region) of $20, we can say that there is a lack of programmers in the world and if there is no big war or crisis, then there is nothing to be afraid of - program for health, keep your posture, take care of your eyesight , earn money.
Statistics source: goo.gl/AgyRIE

Answer 8

Everything is simple, you need to work not only for money, but also for the idea itself. If a programmer has written some project, let's say halfway, and he wants to finish what he started in a purely trivial way, then yes, this can make a specialist out of a programmer. And if, as already mentioned, he came for money, since this is visible to the naked eye, then he will immediately throw the project halfway.

Answer 9

There is a shortage of specialists, there is an excess of sellers.

Answer 10

There are no problems with personnel, it is already more difficult with specialists

Answer 11

Good specialists, yes, so programmers are already becoming in bulk

Answer 12

Many here tell (on a toaster, habré) and I often hear that it is extremely difficult to find specialists in web development, or for mobile devices.

Web development specialists now are any tenth grader and every Indian. Developers of native (network, and now they are all network) applications on mobile platforms are really in short supply and are well paid, in my opinion.