There are multiple problems we're talking about here.
One is the selection problem, that orgs have great difficulty in working out who is a good developer and who is not.
The other is that there are a lot of developers who have difficulty in getting work, and to a large extent a lot of them just aren't any good and would be better off in a different career (sorry but that's just the way it is).
Once you've removed the rubbish developers there are indeed far more jobs than developers.
> Once you've removed the rubbish developers there are indeed far more jobs than developers.
Agree. And once you add in the big companies like FB, Google, etc... picking up a huge lot of the good+ developers, everyone else is scrambling to find someone who can at a minimum do FizzBuzz.
I don't know, I am certain that the big co's miss a LOT of good developers who just don't fit their interview process. I went through Google's once and got cut off pretty early in the process, and never attempted a large Co's interview process again after that.
I didn't say they got all of the good developers, but they definitely pull a lot of them. For a really good developer it makes sense to at least try to work at one of the companies for awhile. The money is good, and it ends up being a great resume builder. Are there great devs who are passed over or who do not want to work at the big companies? Sure, but the big companies do suck a lot of the talent out of the pool.
One is the selection problem, that orgs have great difficulty in working out who is a good developer and who is not.
The other is that there are a lot of developers who have difficulty in getting work, and to a large extent a lot of them just aren't any good and would be better off in a different career (sorry but that's just the way it is).
Once you've removed the rubbish developers there are indeed far more jobs than developers.