I think there's also a power struggle. I've seen so many shitty job offers, where a company thinks it can hire developers like a commodity and have them impleme

I think there's also a power struggle. I've seen so many shitty job offers, where a company thinks it can hire developers like a commodity and have them implement whatever crap idea they have come up with. Unless they have a truly great product at hand, the only ones applying will be the ones desperate for money. But no good developer wants to work on some potential shovel ware that's dead on arrival. There's so much software being made these days, and most of it isn't all that useful to be honest. There are also so many old century companies still failing to adapt to the internet age, trying to force their way into it with half baked copy cat strategies. I'm not going to put all my passion into someone else's dubious pipe dreams or some vision-less experimental venture. Good developers know they are valuable, and that their work carries the whole product. Jobs at companies that make beneficial, useful software are usually highly contested, but for companies that struggle to attract developers the issue might be more then just the job market.