This is absolutely a problem. Pretty much any position, including in-office, is swamped by people from far-away countries with no visa. But I think that's prob

This is absolutely a problem. Pretty much any position, including in-office, is swamped by people from far-away countries with no visa. But I think that's probably a different problem. If we exclude the clueless applicants: the hiring pool is just so much larger. Back in the day you'd live in city X and you'd get get a job in city X, or maybe neighbouring city Y. The number of devs in that location was often in the thousands, or maybe even hundreds (depending on size of city X and Y, obviously). But now it's everybody in the US, or everybody in the EU and Africa, or everybody in the world. "Get the best applicant out of five qualified candidates" is one thing. "Get the best applicant out of five hundred qualified candidates" is quite another.