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A large majority of a country’s tech student population chooses to go for software rather than hardware. The younger generation, myself included, does not perceive a “normal job” as normal. The popularity of software development in post-Soviet Nations started to materialize itself somewhere around the early 2000s. In a developed nation, where there are hundreds of companies constantly looking for engineers, this would definitely not happen. The startup market that is absolutely brutal to those who try and produce some kind of hardware in developing nations is brutal.