There's an awful lot that's hiding under that word "often" in your last sentence. How often? How do we know? Anecdotally, even as a software & full-stack web d

There's an awful lot that's hiding under that word "often" in your last sentence. How often? How do we know? Anecdotally, even as a software & full-stack web developer that's worked in half a dozen languages and has a math degree, I've been in both positions -- I've had the freedom to complain about people annoying me with unsolicited offers to interview while banking a third of my paycheck and treating another third as disposable... and I've been pavement-pounding in desperation. The former has been more often the case than the latter for me, but I think it's probable that like a large portion of the audience here, I've been insulated by circumstance.