On: Tech startups face stiff competition for talent

[mrgordon]

Exactly. I've read sources that claim there are only 11,000 computer science graduates nationally per year. Here's the source: http://www.peacepowerlove.com/archives/5187

[misterbee → mrgordon]

If you include other sources of software professionals: math, applied math, physics, and engineering, you'll probably get closer to 50,000 per year. Add in non-college and college dropout and you'll get even more.

(The "8,000 from one school in one year" estimate is too high, though, yes.)