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> In the U.S. this does not match what I see. Instead, there are a ton of positions for "senior" positions that are filtering on specific amounts of experiences

> In the U.S. this does not match what I see. Instead, there are a ton of positions for "senior" positions that are filtering on specific amounts of experiences in such a way that there just aren't enough people that match. Likewise, the field is VERY CROWDED with newer devs that lack experience - they fight over a relative handful of positions that have truly absurd entrance requirements. Are you in SV? It's almost exactly the opposite in the metropolitan area I live in (one of the markets on this list [1]). There are many hundreds of hiring junior dev jobs open at any time, and constant emails about junior or what are essentially junior jobs. But there are only a very small handful of senior jobs. I'm very happy where I'm at right now, but it makes me uneasy. Based on my experience with applying to jobs for which I was "overqualified" as a recent college grad in the 1990s, I wouldn't be able to snag any of these junior jobs regardless of the salary I was willing to accept. 1. https://www.aitp.org/blog/aitp-blog/2018/10/23/tech-town-usa-20-cities-it-pros-will-want-to-call-home/ https://www.aitp.org/blog/aitp-blog/2018/10/23/tech-town-usa...

ergothus 7y ago
Seattle, so likely very similar to SV. When I was in Richmond VA I saw a similar problem (weighted towards "senior"), though obviously smaller numbers across the board. That was 8ish years ago though, so things may well have changed.
- monoideism 7y ago
  For the record, I think I should come back and correct myself here. I actually paid attention to jobs posted in my metropolitan area for a few days after this discussion, and I was wrong. While the ratio of junior:senior jobs isn't as low as it is in SV, it's not nearly as bad as I made it out to be. There are still more non-junior jobs here, my previous statement notwithstanding.

ergothus 7y ago

Seattle, so likely very similar to SV. When I was in Richmond VA I saw a similar problem (weighted towards "senior"), though obviously smaller numbers across the board. That was 8ish years ago though, so things may well have changed.

monoideism 7y ago
For the record, I think I should come back and correct myself here. I actually paid attention to jobs posted in my metropolitan area for a few days after this discussion, and I was wrong. While the ratio of junior:senior jobs isn't as low as it is in SV, it's not nearly as bad as I made it out to be. There are still more non-junior jobs here, my previous statement notwithstanding.