>The reason YC companies are offering salaries like that is because people accept them. But they've also been claiming that they're not getting enough qualifie

>The reason YC companies are offering salaries like that is because people accept them. But they've also been claiming that they're not getting enough qualified applicants and positions are going unfilled, which suggests that either there truly are not enough engineers to go around, or these salaries aren't high enough to attract them.