It tires me that there is so much talk about the problem of hiring developers and very little about the problem of "what do you do once you hire them?"

That is, they may treat you like a rockstar when they sign you, but then if you complain because you got a crappy Dell laptop that was a hand-me-down from a salesman who couldn't sell, that your build process takes 40 minutes and that this could cut that to 20 minutes. Of course they have the "sick system" excuse that there is no money, but you get blamed for complaining about the 40 minute build, and then you get blamed that it takes forever to do anything because you are always waiting for that 40 minute build to finish and the system is such a house of cards that if you work on anything else in parallel whatever you would have learned from that 40 minute build is invalidated.