[Nextgrid]

Companies are welcome to make their interview processes more stringent to weed out bullshitters but they'd have to raise the salaries until they actually get enough non-BS candidates through the door.

That not happening suggests that "BS" is good enough for most companies in which case why should you bust your ass doing any better when it's just more work for yourself and is unlikely to get rewarded adequately?

If they're offering "market-rate" salary then they can get "market-rate" quality, and if BS became the new "market-rate" then I don't see anything wrong with that.

[saulpw]

No, if anything, higher salaries just attract better bullshitters.