‘The Alternate Universe of Over-Employed Web Developers’ – ‘Mashable’

Dani Fankhauser says, “Pretend you’re sitting in a cafe and overhear a conversation next to you, between two tech recruiters. If you’re not already ingrained in the tech industry, what you hear might sound like it’s coming from a different planet. There are more Web developer jobs than candidates, and it takes months — not years — to climb the career ladder.James Somers, a developer, writes in a recent essay:

“I have a friend who decided, part way into his second year of law school, to start coding. Two months later he was enrolled in Hacker School in New York, and three months later he was working as an intern at a consultancy that helps build websites for startups. A month into that internship”.