I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain about developer shortages

As a college student, 1. is the one that worries the most. Automatic filtering is scary, and there's no way to test how these ATS systems are viewing my resume.

Yes, tech hiring is entirely broken. I’ve had so many interviews and have been turned down a lot. It sucks but you can’t take it personal. You have to realize interviewers are dealing with time shortages, incomplete information and therefore looking for cues you’re a good fit. Most of those boil down to personality.

Whenever I start interviewing, it takes a few fails before I finally realize: my talents are not (at all) what interviewers care about. Talent is just the icing on the cake. Once I remember that, I focus on being personable and start getting multiple offers. It’s always been like that.

Not enough full stack developers with 10 years of experience willing to work for 75k, “possible equity”, and catered lunches on a “fast-paced high-growth” project that just completed a series A. (actually saw this description)

Things companies control:

1 - Pay

2 - Work life balance (incl. remote work)

3 - Strong peers

4 - Control in _how_ things are done for senior developers

5 - Efficiency

I'm pretty sure that most companies are, at best, 1/5.

""" You should not be testing people’s ability to recall some obscure definition in an interview. You should be testing people’s ability to tackle something they can’t recall off the top of their head. And, you should allow them every tool they have available.

If they’re totally unfamiliar with the problem, and yet they make significant progress in just one hour that should be interpreted as a good sign this person would provide a lot of value to your company """

I think this is extremely important. A developer that can make a lot of progress on something they haven't seen before is often times just as good as a developer who can tell you the big-O efficiency of reversing a red-black tree off the top of their head. Although the latter may indicate a very interested systems-level hobbyist, which is also an excellent value in terms of an engineering quality but impossible to tell from a whiteboard interview if they're a hobbyist or if they just studied.