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>All companies in my circle are struggling to find developers.

All companies can be struggling to hire if their bar is too high and/or their pay is too low.

> All companies in my circle are struggling to find developers.

Struggling to find developers is often a self-inflicted problem by making the processs unattractive (nope, I'm not doing an 8 hour take-home project for free) or silly (nope, I'm not spending 6 months leetcoding).

Companies that adjust their hiring pipeline process to be an enabler of hiring tend to have an easier time hiring.

I'm being contacted for rates at 50%+ what the market was 3 years ago and they don't even care what my background is. And these are corporate recruiters, not phonebanks.

Same. Just yesterday, I had a company wanting to negotiate employment terms after saying they were passing on me last week.

I've had 8 recruiters reach out just this morning on LinkedIn. Granted, most of them are crap gigs but they were mostly crap gigs 6 months ago too. Plenty are interesting though. I'm really glad I specialized early on and found a niche.