New Delhi, May 19 -- Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu has sounded a warning for software engineers - their high salaries must not be taken for granted and it can't be assumed that this pay will last forever.

In a post on X, Vembu said that software engineers can be 'disrupted' given the productivity revolution coming to the field.

The Zoho CEO in his post warned that software engineers' high pay is not "some birthright".

"I have often said this to our employees: the fact that software engineers get paid better than mechanical engineers or civil engineers or chemists or school teachers is not some birthright and we cannot take that for granted, and we cannot assume it will last forever," Vembu said, adding, "The fact that customers pay for our pr...