The harsh truth about developers and development

A long time ago, in one distant galaxy, personal computers appeared and people of all ages and professions, who had access to this miracle of engineering, began to invent and write programs, both for work and just for fun. Despite the fact that computer technology already existed by that time and universities graduated young people with specialized specialization, the development profession was not widespread and concerned mainly research laboratories - guys in white coats. Personal computers moved this situation from a dead center: small companies had the opportunity to simplify their daily activities, and at home, PCs could even be used for games!





There were no huge salaries in those days, software development companies were created by romantics in rented office rooms, in which they often had to spend the night. Someone could not stand it and gave up, someone created masterpieces and got rich, but in those days no one said that people get paid just like that. Those times gave us a bunch of programs, some of which remain the most popular in their field to this day (For example, MS Excel. It's scary to think, but still most investment bankers use MS Excel for their models). Those times gave us people like Peter Norton and Anders Hejlsberg or John Carmack with Sid Mayer, if the games are closer to you.






In the late 90s, with the widespread development of the Internet, the first alarm bells began to appear. Developers' salaries began to rise along with dot-com stocks, and this bubble began to attract any people who could write at least some code. Instead of people who perfectly know their field, random people began to appear who at least somehow coped with the tasks. The only plus, probably, was the fact that so far these guys did not dictate to the business how it should work.





Dot-coms died safely and for ten years the plague of modern development disappeared to return in the early tenths of the 21st century with renewed vigor. The rooted in life of the Internet has led to the fact that any office more than five people began to require a website (or better a portal) and the need for developers (and, consequently, salaries) began to grow. In Russia, salaries have grown from $ 200 to a thousand in five years, and tens of thousands of young "specialists" have begun to storm new horizons.





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