You make a great point.
I have a job, a good manager who's already told me I can work fully remote, or office or a mix of either. The company has decent work life balance and perks.
Sure, the work does get a bit boring sometimes and I could try for a bigger paycheck. So, unless the hiring company can offer a substantially large amount of money, flexibility and interesting work, I don't really care to go through their "dance monkey, dance" interview process.
It's like the tides have changed. I want to know what the hiring company is offering to make a switch attractive.
The switch was attractive to me- and made me willing to dance - when my ex employer was unwilling to let me continue to work remote as I had the previous 18 months.
I voiced my opinions on it, changed my life around because of COVID, and they still seemed surprised when I gave them my 2 weeks.
I would have likely stayed if I got the approval to continue to work at home.
I’d say the extra ~10 hours of work over the month for it was worth it. It always is.
This is exactly the problem. For people that have worked a few different roles and seen bad practices/environments and are now relatively happy where they are, why leave?
The US software industry might be at another inflection point where in order to recruit senior roles, salaries have to move up significantly. Sure there are other factors candidates consider but changing tech stack, culture, process, etc. is much harder to do if those things are a problem. In contrast to those things, paying more is easier to do and that is even considering how hard it is to get approvals/budget as well as fairness with existing staff.
It's like the tides have changed. I want to know what the hiring company is offering to make a switch attractive.