Title: I&#x27;m considering a career change, but the job market for software development has me confused.<p>On the one hand, it&#x27;s very common to hear about some supposed shortage of programmers. Yet on the other, few companies seem to have more than a couple openings at any point in time. And it seems every CS uni student or bootcamp grad complains about having to send out 300+ applications in hopes of landing 2-3 interviews.<p>WTF? That&#x27;s easily an order of magnitude worse odds than when I applied to medical schools. How can it be that hard to land a job if the market is supposedly desperate for talent?<p>Or is it only _experienced_ coders that are in demand? Are employers just lamenting how the majority of applicants have barely any experience and little depth of knowledge?<p>If that&#x27;s the case, encouraging people to go into the field on the pretense of a &quot;hot job market&quot; seems disingenuous. I don&#x27;t want to spend years of my life and who knows how much money learning a new skillset only to discover I&#x27;ve joined an ocean of low-skilled coders who won&#x27;t have any serious job prospects for 5+ more years. :&#x2F;
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