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I love how firms have an issue hiring senior engineers, when the last few firms I've spoken with deemed me "overqualified".

Another buddy with longterm CTO experience had 150 applications with a 2% hit-rate.

On the "better" AngelList CTO/Senior jobs we can clearly see that there's already 50-100 other applications submitted.

So is this really that big of an issue as presented?




constantly complaining about the job market being tough is a strategy for companies.

they could have a 1,000 perfect candidates lining out the door willing to work for peanuts.

At that point they would adjust their expectation from "peanut" to "half a peanut" and they would still moan about "skill shortage".


Similar to adding the words "bad economy" in discussions regarding performance evaluations and raises. Cop outs based on mostly arbitrary "market mechanics".




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