- Competition/Compensation for experienced coders has risen sharply
- There are many more inexperienced SDE's coming from colleges/bootcamps/etc
- Senior titles are often given to individuals who are still very early in their careers
Now, these factors might be necessary/good in the short term as software continues to eat the world.
But, let's not pretend that the talent shortage isn't a problem.
Either we are lousy at picking projects, we have a broken culture, or the problem is that we have too many developers and so people can ramp up a bunch of projects that have already been done hundreds of times elsewhere.
We’ve added lanes to the proverbial highway and traffic just gets worse..
Experienced programmers know they don't have to settle for less.
The supply/demand balance for experienced engineers is such that many companies are (explicitly or not) choosing to go with less experienced engineers.
Your issues in recruiting interviewing and oboarding are not the fault of tech workers.