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Electrical Engineering Employment Declines Nearly 10%, But Developers Up 12%

Posted by samzenpus on from the end-of-the-engineer dept.

dcblogs writes The number of people working as electrical engineers declined by 29,000 last year, continuing a long-standing trend, according to government data. But the number of software developers, the largest IT occupational category, increased by nearly 12%,or a gain of 132,000 jobs. There were 1.235 million people working as software developers last year, and 271,000 electrical engineers, according U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

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  1. Interview questions by fyngyrz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "But... but... isn't there a library for that?"

    lol

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  2. Re:But if you look at unemployment... EEs beat CS by laffer1 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I have the opposite opinion. I have interviewed quite a few EE and CS people for programming jobs. I currently work at a university and while the EE people seem proficient in their favorite language, they don't know anything about design patterns. Trying to get one of them to use a MVC framework is hard enough, but to actually understand what is going on is impossible.

    Quite a few of them have limited database experience and they don't know how to use any ORMs either.

    No thanks.

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