The TLDR says : "There is far more demand for engineers than there is supply, and that makes engineers powerful in a way other professions are not." I can't be

The TLDR says : "There is far more demand for engineers than there is supply, and that makes engineers powerful in a way other professions are not." I can't believe this. I must be a garbage engineer then, because I found the US job market for software engineering roles to be absolutely soul crushingly difficult. I am not the only one, my friends did too. I have given up several times and then restarted job search. I have been grinding leetcode but companies want nothing less than complete perfection. I actually thought something like triplebyte would be useful, give a test once and have the score be valid for a couple of years, like a GRE for algos and data structures. I really don't get it.