I think you're wrong, it's definitely hard to find competent software engineers. The existence of Hack Reactor and friends are evidence of this -- entire busin

I think you're wrong, it's definitely hard to find competent software engineers. The existence of Hack Reactor and friends are evidence of this -- entire businesses predicated on a supply of dev talent that doesn't meet demand. But, I think these businesses typically fail to turn out competent software engineers and are really just making a buck off of otherwise smart people who are too focused on the allure of a six-figure software engineering salary. And thus, they don't really help close the talent gap anyway since they are turning out people with just enough software development knowledge to get past a recruiter and into an interview.