Just wondering...
People are contradicting each other's idea
Some say yes the IT industry is over-saturated
Some say no, it isn't
What's your opinion?

My company (a big ass IT servicing company) recently went to Japan to recruit Malaysian and Asean students to work for us. Nowadays we lost a lot to India, but we are growing in IT support for Japanese market. Reason being indians cant speak japanese, whilist the philipines (our closest competitor) have weird accent that made japanese did not understand eventhough they spoke the language.

To answer ur question, yes the market is over saturated but IT fresh grads still got pay above average. Wanna really score job even before you are grad? Learn japanese.

Its saturated alright. Saturated with average workers just like any other field. I can assure you that there are tons of high paying positions for good developers, small and big companies alike.

Is Japan really that good for computer science?

Is it better than study in Singapore or Australia?

Your topic and your question is based on two different areas. According to ACM and MQA programme Standards, Computer Science and IT are two totally different fields within the Computing sector. I would agree with the general statement that the IT industry is over-saturated. However, the area of computer science in South East Asia is very much in demand for talents. There is a general shortage of talented programmers as well. Data Scientists and Security professionals are also very very much in short supply. The emphasis is on TALENTED.

We produce a LOT of CS grads which unfortunately either don't want to work in the sector anymore after awhile OR are not mathematically/technically inclined and competent. I blame the second-rate universities who are more concerned about selling the programme than to make the programme useful.

Touche! Well put!

Agree, very true.