I'm now past 50 anecdotes on the job market, and it feels there's a catch-22 position repeating: 1. Companies struggling to hire certain profiles (product-minded engineers, devtools infra etc) 2. Inbound apps are SUPER noisy, so most co's give up on them 3. Devs with the above skillset are submitting applications... but rarely ever make it thru the massive noise of inbound applications So #1 never finds #3 and both #1 and #3 wonder what is going on