That's true, however I've been seeing complaints for a little longer than that. Perhaps in FAANG they were hiring, but in general I remember seeing a lot of junior devs (not from elite colleges) commenting about how they applied for 50 positions sometimes. Something unthinkable in my time.

eh, this was life foe me in rhe eaely 2010s too. Super hard to get into a good spot back then.

The junior dev market has been terrible since the COVID lockdown.

Remote is hard to make work with juniors, unfortunately.

Tell me about it. I don't mind helping someone, but when they don't pay attention the first time and I have to have the same exact meeting again, it's kind of a bother.

We've had some success with recording meetings and using automated transcriptions, though we don't have any fresh out of college juniors now.

My current place does that, but we still don't really hire juniors so who knows if it works.

It was pretty shitty in the late 2000s/early 2010s IIRC.