[morgante]

I don't think 6 months is a typical developer job search, and that has nothing to do with being picky.

Almost everyone worth working for is hiring constantly. Hence it's relatively straightforward to run a bunch of interview processes in parallel while still being quite picky about the offer you accept. In most cases, it's highly unlikely that a better option will materialize with additional time (in 99% of cases, it would have existed when you started).

[fweespeech]

Maybe I'm just a bad developer but it does take me 6 months to find any kind of pay/benefits bump.

And no, it isn't easy to do it in parallel because I'm almost always employed so my bandwidth is about one interview a month.

[adrianN]

It depends on where you live and how comfortable you are with moving to a different city. Not every city is San Francisco.