[codingdave]

In my community, most programmers receive several inquiries a month (or week, or even day)... but saying there are several offers a month would imply they are actively interviewing enough for inquiries to become offers. The "several offers a month" is an exaggeration of reality that I hear often, but when you really dig into it is just that... exaggerated.

[mgkimsal]

Thank you for the clarification - this is exactly my experience too, and that of most others. I don't think I've known anyone in the past 20 years of working who consistently received multiple job offers per month, especially when they weren't interviewing.

Most of the inquiries I know of (for myself and others) are generic recruiter spam, or word of mouth referrals by people looking for really cheap work. So yeah, there's lots of work out there to be done, but much of it is in far less than ideal situations.

[Kurtz79]

It's my experience as well.

I do receive several "inquiries" per week, mostly due the fact of having left my CV (obviously now very outdated) in many job sites when I was looking for a job in London, almost 10 years ago.

They are of the type "Dear [Name], I hope you are well. Would this role be of interest for you in your current situation ? [role description]. If not, do you know some friend of yours that would ? Best regards, [name of person totally unknown to me]."

This is not even a serious inquiry, much less an "offer".