Your experience is vastly different from every other developer I know. Other than people having a friend who can literally give them a job, ex a startup CEO, it

Your experience is vastly different from every other developer I know. Other than people having a friend who can literally give them a job, ex a startup CEO, it's all multiple days of interviews, round after round of whiteboard coding, engineers being thrown into interviewing you with zero warning so they just middle through the whole thing, and getting ghosted by the companies at any point in the process. These same companies are ones I see talking about shortages of engineers