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by paulpauper 483 days ago
Employers too choosy. It's like everything else in the post-2010s economy: you have to be really talented to get ahead'; otherwise you are stuck or unemployed or menial jobs.
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they can afford to be. we used to get 1600+ apps in a week -- and that was 2013!

now with AI and a global marketplace -- and remote work being a thing -- the pool is deeper and cheaper.

burn an extra 3+ months and you can find the highly ("highly") skilled worker willing to take 70k to code some new stack. they may be in Croatia or Indonesia, but hey Teams works w/ different timezones...

I’m sure some of that is delaying: by having such high standards, they don’t have to go through the risk of actually hiring someone.