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It sounds more like your employers are unhappy with your skill or performance and not that you simply have trouble finding a job.
TBF everyone hiring developers wants senior level skills for junior pay.
You're not wrong, but I think the bigger issue is whether or not their performance lives up to the actual job description, not the pay grade.
I think one's opinions on this issue come from if you need a developer or a job.
I personally empathize with the devs, since their rent money depends on being employed and a corporation will continue to function woth or without 1 developer.
Also at my office we don't care too much about dev experience because we understand almost all software is either enterprise and doesn't require devs, or unique to that one company and it will take the same amount of time to catch up a senior dev as it would to train a junior.
which office are you? I am missing such fresh perspectives. Everybody wants someone with 10 years experience in 5 different stacks on 5 different languages/tools.
I'm in the public sector.
Unfortunately due to the current administration, and the loyalist that was put in charge, we are under an indefinite hiring freeze. -_-
Idk about all departments so look around, but our department isn't hiring and it's kind of fucking things up.
https://www.usajobs.gov/
It sounds to me like maybe their coding performance was fine but the company actually wanted a leader.
I guess that goes back to my job description comment then.
The company probably wanted a savant for monkey's pay.