Comment Re:Stupid stats - read the articles yourselves (Score 0) 557
I doubt it. When I was in IT at a fairly large publicly traded company one major department had, if I remember correctly, about that ratio as the layoffs were hitting the common folks. It was really freaking bizarre but I figured it was office politics--the managers know how to save themselves--at least for a while.
And I also sat in on a LOT of interviews (as one of the pre-screeners) where desperate people with Ph.D's in computer science and/or mucho amounts of experience were piling up coming to us for relatively low level development jobs, which look great today, as that was back in 2002.
What I think is more interesting is that the b.s. seems to have dropped and people are talking about the reality of just how hard IT has been hit across the country, and those statistics are terrible in that they drop off people who've given up no matter what their skill level is.
The real unemployment rate in IT is probably much higher than what's reported if you count skilled programmers who have demonstrated their skill in the past, who now cannot get jobs to save their lives.
