The shortage is artificial. Companies do not want inexperienced developers, and they are unwilling to invest in the education and experience of developers. They want someone that already has all the credentials they want, on paper. Regardless of if they're actually good or not. That's a natural result of favoring short term goals over long term investment and the ever increasing corprotization of development jobs. If anyone but your actual dev leads are creating and hiring for dev jobs - you're apart of the problem.
Propaganda like "job shortages" are a nice way of saying "we need to import more workers", whilst rejecting hundreds of domestic applicants.
Propaganda like "job shortages" are a nice way of saying "we need to import more workers", whilst rejecting hundreds of domestic applicants.