[rainyMammoth]

> the demand for qualified engineering managers being far, far, greater than the supply.

That's not really what it is. Let's rephrase it as "the demand for engineering managers that pass your completely subjective interview process which is completely unrelated to the job".

[mattlondon]

Also don't forget "... and at the salary we are prepared to pay".

I have no idea what the salary was these people were offering but often companies seem to moan about there being "no talent" or a "skills shortage" when they're actually just offering unrealistically low salaries/total comp for a highly-skilled and in-demand job so either don't get much interest, or only get applications from chancers and charlatans trying their luck

[SpicyLemonZest]

No, I think the original statement is fair. Good engineering managers, like good staff-level engineers, will generally receive multiple solicitations a week to please come work for some company or another. Notice how the author considered it "entirely believable" that the candidate would have disabled his Linkedin profile due to recruiter spam; people at the level he was claiming really can get recruited so much that they need specific strategies to deal with it.