because if more kids can be tricked into STEM careers, more engineers will graduate, and the cost of hiring goes down, and they are easier to replace. and when these engineers earn less they cannot quit. and by getting them into bootcamps and spreading the idea that degrees are useless, they do not need to pay for a degree and they can train you for their tool set, which no one else is using, preventing you from quitting.
coding interviews act as a mechanism that demotivates people to quit or switch companies. it also helps with driving cost of hiring down. engineers tend to engage in pissing contests of who is smarter, especially at FANG companies. this furthers their goals.
If someone with a completely irrelevant arts degree can waltz into management or sales or other customer-facing jobs, there is nothing about having a STEM education that would stop you from doing that too, if you wanted. An aptitude for coding and automation can make you a shoe-in for a plethora of office-based jobs that traditionally have no STEM requirements.
That's where the demand for STEM comes. Parents and careers advisors push STEM because it opens additional doors.
it is not this industry’s responsability to solve the career issues of all other industries. and STEM is being promoted primarily to drive the cost of hiring down, resulting in the erosion of the careers of current workers.
It's not its responsibility, no, but it still represents a set of skills (data analysis, coding, automation) that you just don't get with an arts degree. Those skills have immense value in non-STEM jobs, would easily make you a preferred candidate.
Your theory about supply and demand is interesting, but all things said, somebody with a STEM education is still automatically better off than other formal educations.
It's about opportunity. STEM education providers more career opportunity. Sales and marketing are great examples of careers that STEM educations and technical experience enhance.
when people with kids think STEM, they think FAANG or “tech job” because that is what they hear about 24/7. They want their kids to have a piece of those billions. And that is the problem. Big tech promises a lucrative get rich quick tech career, and the real reason they do so is to lower the cost of hiring.
coding interviews act as a mechanism that demotivates people to quit or switch companies. it also helps with driving cost of hiring down. engineers tend to engage in pissing contests of who is smarter, especially at FANG companies. this furthers their goals.