I wonder how much of the shortage is due to there only being a relatively small portion of jobs that developers actually want.
Every time I've worked at a small company that had obvious perks (using a cool language, building a cool product), we had a bunch of applicants to pick from. We could be picky.
But the few times I worked at a company on soul-sucking work like internal legacy tools in VBScript for a non-tech company, they were the ones complaining about the great dev shortage.
They paid well but you also had to jump through hoops to see what it was which is too typical in our work culture. So if the job description doesn't compel someone to apply, GG.
Every time I've worked at a small company that had obvious perks (using a cool language, building a cool product), we had a bunch of applicants to pick from. We could be picky.
But the few times I worked at a company on soul-sucking work like internal legacy tools in VBScript for a non-tech company, they were the ones complaining about the great dev shortage.
They paid well but you also had to jump through hoops to see what it was which is too typical in our work culture. So if the job description doesn't compel someone to apply, GG.