We’ve turned into a Hive, things are getting serious.

I can't even imagine the possibility of price dumping in this situation, and I don't think these people are to blame.
Only aggressive marketing is to blame. There are a lot of low-quality courses that create false expectations among people and overheat the junior market. It's bad for everyone, both for hard-working people and for employers who waste a lot of time trying to find the right person in this sea.

I mean, of course, there's no conscious price dumping, if you meant blame in that context. I just used the term неудачно. In short, the point is that there are, say, 10 people for 1 position, the employer sees this, and accordingly lowers the salary, ignores working conditions, and so on. It's a simple case of supply and demand. And it doesn't matter that 9 out of 10 can't write or read, they've entered the market and lowered the salary of the one who can work. And you know what else? Experienced people don't go anywhere. IT specialists can work until they're 80. Do I need to say that the oldest of them are now, at best, 60 years old? There are more and more people, the growth in the number of IT specialists exceeds the growth of the market, otherwise salaries and working conditions would not fall so sharply, especially in the CIS.

No, of course. The main goal is not to save money, but to find a specialist who will work well.

Well, Medzh, don't exaggerate) You made a funny point about working well)) In an ideal world, there would be ideal people. The main goal is to make a profit. That's it. It doesn't matter how. If profit can be made by selling the lowest quality product, most entrepreneurs won't care about anything else. I'm not even talking about the fact that not all owners can or want to control their company, this function is often performed by managers, who, by the way, may have their own goals.

And here's another point. The initial selection is carried out by technical specialists, who are not allowed to discuss salary expectations at all. The applicant cannot undercut the price at this stage. They can only demonstrate their skills. It is only later that they may be rejected due to excessive requirements if the company is not ready to offer such a salary. That's all.

The initial selection is carried out by an HR person with psychology courses behind them, who takes into account the importance of the zodiac sign and does a tarot card reading. It's a separate topic.

And the fact that people without experience are willing to accept a low salary in order to get their foot in the door is, in my opinion, a perfectly normal situation, both now and 10 years ago. I would do the same.

That's not the point. 10 years ago, with my current portfolio, I could easily get a job without a billion unpaid test assignments. I have relatives who got into IT in the 00s and 10s, at the best time. Now they are mid-level/senior developers in foreign companies. I know how they lived/worked. Yes, they are not fools and not lazy, but they are not the kind of people who worked day and night without weekends. They didn't bust their asses to get this. They just worked and grew in the process. Now I can't do that. I need to bust my ass not to get into a foreign company, but just to get a job in a CIS company for a bowl of rice. That's the point. That's why I personally will no longer work in this field unless absolutely necessary.