"Professional and technical services" covers a lot of stuff, and there may be lots more workers in 'professional services' that are not software folks. I've go

"Professional and technical services" covers a lot of stuff, and there may be lots more workers in 'professional services' that are not software folks. I've got more than a handful of (over)qualified colleagues that can't get hired anywhere. Hundreds of applications - not all just click/submit, but many have personal connections/intros vouch for them - hiring will take less experienced/cheaper folks, or... just put off hiring for another few months. Place near me has had the same open position for going on 16 months now. Specific language/tech stack where they also want someone onsite 5 days week. When you've had the position open that long, and you've turned away qualified people for... nitpicky stuff... the job must not be that important. Yet, somehow it's ultra-important to be onsite 5 days/week. Suspicion is that they're just riding the other devs there harder while they 'look' for someone they have no intention of hiring, all while saying "we just can't find anyone!".