[chrisweekly]

> "The days of 'too few programmers to go around' are long past, there is now a surplus..."

Some of your other points were insightful, but this assertion contradicts my experience and intuition, and -- I believe -- labor market statistics.

[ChuckMcM]

The last time I listed a $120K job opening I had hundreds of resumes thrown at me, over 10[1] of them were completely qualified and So perhaps it would be more accurate to say "$80K/yr programmers are scarce."

In 1999 when I was hiring programmers and offering above market starting salaries I wouldn't get any qualified resumes.

It is from that experience that would assert it is a 'pricing' issue rather than a 'selection' issue.

[1] After 10 qualified I had my first interview round, 3 were brought back for secondary interviews and one hired. I expect there were easily 20 - 30 engineers in there that could have done the job.

[ori_b]

The last time I put my resume out ( about 3 months ago), my big problem was who to interview with, since I was flooded with requests.

It seems that there might be plenty of churn overall.

[gozur88]

Mine too. We're having real problems filling contract positions. People are juggling multiple offers, and if we don't jump on a candidate right away they take another offer and we have to restart the process.

We've gone through surplus years before, and they don't look like this.