That's easy, there is a vast chasm between people who say they can do things and people who actually can do things. This is precisely why these filters exist!
>That's easy, there is a vast chasm between people who say they can do things and people who actually can do things. This is precisely why these filters exist!
Amen. There is no shortage of applicants. But there is a shortage of competent, qualified ones. In fact, I find it frightening the degree to which blatantly incompetent people can skate by in our industry. I recently interviewed someone who rated themselves as a "professional level" Java programmer. (The highest level he could have rated himself is Expert, one above professional level.) The first technical question I asked was, "OK, please write a Hello World program in Java for me.". He totally bombed. It was painful to witness. He had no clue what he was doing, but yet, there he was, asking for a six-figure salary and deeming himself worthy of it.
Supply and demand. Whether there is an actual shortage of a good depends on price.
The extremes:
Is there a shortage of talented engineers willing to work for minimum wage? Of course!
Is there a shortage of talented engineers at a price of, say, $5M a year? I guarantee not.
So there exists a market wage somewhere in between at which supply of talented engineers must equal demand. If you think there is a shortage of real talent you might not be at market rate for that talent.
Using your example, there exists a market rate for an engineer who doesn’t know how to program Hello World. You might be surprised how much that is!
