When a company says, "we can't find enough good developers." To me that is a huge red flag and makes me look for a few things. One it might say they have so mu

When a company says, "we can't find enough good developers." To me that is a huge red flag and makes me look for a few things. One it might say they have so much tech debt they need an army of programmers to maintain it. willing to bet good programmers stiff this out quick. Second they are doing recruiting all wrong and/or have some senior guy that asks some dumb riddles and if people get it wrong or mess under stress they don't offer a job to them. I have been to so many job interviews like this in my career, where they have a programmer on staff with a huge ego and it shows in the interview. I never even entrain an offer if I meet anyone like this at all. Third, which was cover heavily in comments here is salary and benefits. It isn't always salary either. I have take less money for more vacation time and other great benefits. I like to look at the big picture, not just the salary, as long as the total package is within the average. Last and I think the most important is company culture. I think you can have all the others correct but if this isn't working great you will just keep losing people. It only takes one bad apple at the company for this to drive people away. This is the hardest to see and fix, especially if it starts from the top management.