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...which will depress the wages of everyone on HN reading these words. Especially entry level engineers or those without CS degrees.

"Coding bootcamps" are the new DeVry IT program of the 2010s.

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What people tend to forget is that Google and others were involved in anti-poaching deals that kept the wages of workers down. What people don't realize is that this affected you whether you worked for Google or some company competing with Google. After all, if they could match Google's artificially lower salary, or get near it, they were good. Those actions hurt everyone in the industry.

While it's great they are working to train workers, it's not hard to imagine them having a conversation about this regarding lowered salaries.

Exactly. Instead of colluding to artificially depress wages, flood the market with trainees to naturally and legally accomplish the same end.

It seems like the more IT workers we have the more IT workers we need. When I started in IT, a starting programmer made about the top scale of a teacher. Now a starting programmer makes about 175% of a top scale teacher. At least in the Mid-West.

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