so having done interviews, just because the latter may be more present, does not mean the hordes of people just throwing a spaghetti made-up-resume at the wall have gone away. our industry has a great strength in that you don't need official credentialing to show that you can do something. at the same time, it is hard to verify what people are saying in their resumes, they might be lying in the worst case but sometimes they legitimately think they are at the level they are interviewing for. it was bad before the interest rate hikes, i cannot imagine what the situation is like now that hiring has significantly slowed and a lot more people are fighting for fewer jobs.

i did interviews for senior engineer and had people fail to find the second biggest number in a list, in a programming language of their own choosing. it had a depressingly high failure rate.