We also struggle with hiring and not "lowering the bar", but I've come to exactly the opposite conclusion about their being a shortage. We're simply not offerin

We also struggle with hiring and not "lowering the bar", but I've come to exactly the opposite conclusion about their being a shortage. We're simply not offering enough. We've said yes to a few, and they've mostly responded with variations of "better offer elsewhere". Likewise, most of the offers I get from recruiters are absolutely terrible. 50+% are not a geographic match (and these come from LinkedIn, which knows this preference!), and many fail to specify one or all of: a. what company? b. where, or remote? c. what does the job entail? d. what is the compensation? But plenty of ramblings about "hyper growth unicorn startups". Like the guy you're responding to gets at, I get matched by recruiters based on tools in my stack, not based on what, perhaps, I might want to learn. And I spend 2x on CoL and get 1/2 as much.