> the average developer quality (i.e. boot camps & curriculum) has dropped the value of "a developer" from a manager's perspective If that’s true, I would say

> the average developer quality (i.e. boot camps & curriculum) has dropped the value of "a developer" from a manager's perspective If that’s true, I would say it’s because there are simply more developers (therefore more below average developers), not because the good developers are getting less good. If anything, my experience is that the top developers are far better now. For an internship position I’m hiring for, I’m getting resumes with several previous internships, a top 20 university’s CS degree, research lab experience, side projects, (brief) exposure to a myriad of languages and tools, and certifications. For an internship, that’s far above what I or my peers had when we were interns.