There are many companies that openly hire for middle of the road developers. It's easy to do, just pay middle of the road salaries. In my experience at these c

There are many companies that openly hire for middle of the road developers. It's easy to do, just pay middle of the road salaries. In my experience at these companies, there is sufficient bureaucracy that high performers hit bottlenecks due to the org structure, reducing everyone down to the lowest common denominator anyway. So even an otherwise talented dev can be replaced by a less talented one.