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90% Of Software Developers Work Outside Silicon Valley (qz.com)
An anonymous reader shares a Quartz report: So much code to write, so few developers. The chronic talent shortage afflicting Silicon Valley is now all over the US -- and the developers are too.
A study by the software trade group The App Association analyzed government and private sector data to map where software developers live, and it identified 223,054 open positions around the country. It found that most developers live far away from the technology epicenter of Silicon Valley, and job openings follow a similar pattern. The upshot: Silicon Valley-style talent wars are moving away from tech hubs to smaller metro and even rural areas. Everywhere from rural Vermont to the middle of Montana is in need of programmers. "You can find places where you didn't expect software developers to be, but they are part of the local economy," said association spokesman Jonathan Godfrey in an interview. "It's pretty much everywhere."
One look at the map in TFA and this came to mind: https://xkcd.com/1138/
I guess it surprises someone that "software development" includes a whole lot of people all over the country. Databases don't query themselves, and there's always a lot of corporate tools in every line of work. Software developers make them...
I'm actually surprised that as many as 10 percent work inside Silicon Valley.
The Moore-Murphy Law: The number of things that will go wrong will double every 2 years.
The real question I was wondering why does anyone find that surprising?
While Silicon Valley is a major technology hub (10% of the software developers is HUGE!) there is need for software development across the globe. Many Major colleges teach Computer Science and Computer Engineering around the world, However there are a lot of Major ones in the North Eastern US. It is insane to think that all these people whose home is spread across the world, will travel away from it to study in colleges in one half of the country, then travel 2000 miles to the other end of the country for work?
Most of these people tend to stay near their homes or their colleges (Hence why a lot of communities like having colleges in their area, causing a lot of new business around those areas, from young new grads, who have nothing to lose and startup new companies).
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
of course not, but they still need to be local to have their daily browbeatings in person, and attend all those critically important meetings.
H1Bs are perfect fits.